Comment by ccvannorman

Yes.

The best analogy I can make is actually surprisingly from a book about romantic love, "Undefended Love" [0] where the PhD psychology author goes on to make this critical point:

We often set ourselves up for failure (e.g. negative self talk after a failed romantic outreach attempt) because it results in our progression into a safe and known pattern. They explain that our brains and emotions are somehow more comfortable with a known outcome, even though it is irrevocably and undeniably a worse outcome, simply because it is safe and known to us.

Thus. self-sabotage keeps us inside our comfort zone.

Imaging if you did win that [product launch, vc pitch, ...] your life gets catapulted into the big, scary unknown. Just quit now so we can be comfortable, easy, and lazy!

[0] by Jett Psaris & Marlena S. Lyons