We fail. And so desire to progress, to become better poets, to eradicate a disease, to become better people, to perfect that which is perpetually imperfect. The biblical “fall” is just such an anti-constraint. The apple was fear. (And remember, fear is knowledge, according to Nietzsche.) The apple set the world in motion by forcing Adam and Eve to migrate out of the Perfect. “Fear is to recognize ourselves,” said the philosopher. 

This is not the only outcome. I wonder if it is the most common outcome.

Many fail and seek to avoid future failure. I am sorry to say this is sometimes my choice.

Fear famously spurs fighting or fleeing. Many of us choose flight.

To fight or flee are emotional responses.  We can also engage fear with feeling.

In applying cognition to emotion we may still fail, but respond with a courage and creativity where we neither fight nor flee.