Saturday, March 5, 2011

Fear of failure

Fear of failure is one of the greatest fears people have. Fear of failure is closely related to fear of criticism and fear of rejection. Successful people overcome their fear of failure. Fear incapacitates unsuccessful people.
The Law of Feedback states: there is no failure; there is only feedback. Successful people look at mistakes as outcomes or results, not as failure. Unsuccessful people look at mistakes as permanent and personal.

people who have fear of failure often have difficulty in pushing themselves forward, to achieve their goals. this usually occurs because of a mindset that tells them they would fail at whatever they do.


DEALING WITH FEAR OF FAILURE: A simple technique you can use to overcome fear of failure is to use something called progressive collapse. this involves first thinking about all the bad things that would happen if you didn't do something.

Then ask yourself what would happen after that, and after that, and after that, keep going until you could find the extreme of the worst that could possibly happen. often you would find out that the worst thing you thought of was not so bad after all and most of the time it won't even happen.

Another method you can use is do things you are purposely afraid of. usually when people have a fear of failure it becomes a habit. and consequently they give in to fear without even thinking about it. if you recognise this habit in yourself, you will be able to identify times when you are purposefully avoiding doing something because of the fear you associate with it.

however by purposefully going ahead and doing the things you fear eventually you would break that habit.
the more you give into fear, the more fear would control and restrain your life. the more you resist fear, the less fear would control your life, and more liberated you would feel.