How to overcome fear of failure.
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Fear of failure is one of people's greatest fears and is closely related to fear of criticism and rejection. Successful people overcome this fear by viewing mistakes as feedback rather than failure, persisting despite setbacks, and learning from their experiences rather than taking failures personally. The document provides seven steps to overcome fear of failure, which include taking bold action, persisting through challenges, learning from mistakes without judgment, trying new approaches, being less hard on oneself, and seeing failures as opportunities for growth.
How to overcome fear of failure.
- 1. Fear of failure One of the greatest fears people have.
- 2. Fear of failure is closely related to fear of criticism and fear of rejection. Successful people overcome their fear of failure.
- 3. Successful people look at mistakes as outcomes or results, not as failure. There is no failure; there is only feedback.
- 4. Humans have learned only through mistakesWhatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience.
- 5. They are afraid to try because they are afraid they will fail.Most people do not achieve a fraction of what they are capable of achieving
- 6. Steps to overcome your fear of failure
- 8. Take action.Step One:Bold, decisive action. Do something scary. Fear of failure immobilizes you. To overcome this fear, you must act. When you act, act boldly.
- 9. Successful people just don’t give up. Unsuccessful people try one thing that doesn’t work and then give up. Step Two: Persist.
- 10. Failure is not a personality characteristic Step Three: Don’t take failure personally.
- 11. Although what you do may not give you the result you wanted, it doesn’t mean you are a failure. Because you made a mistake, doesn’t mean that you are a failure.
- 12. If what you are doing isn’t working, do something else. Step Four: Do things differently.There is an old saying, “if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.” .
- 13. Failure is a judgment or evaluation of behavior. Look at failure as an event or a happening, not as a person.Step Five: Don’t be so hard on yourself.
- 14. Think of failure as a learning experience. Step Six: Treat the experience as an opportunity to learn.
- 15. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, says “every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” Step Seven: Look for possible opportunities that result from the experience.Look for the opportunity and the benefit.
- 16. “feel the fear and do it anyway.”Although we all make mistakes, fear of failure doesn’t have to cripple you.
- 17. To summarize ,steps to overcome fear of failureStep one. Take actionStep two PersistStep Three: Don’t take failure personallyStep Four: Do things differently.Step Five: Don’t be so hard on yourself.Step Six: Treat the experience as an opportunity to learn.Step Seven: Look for possible opportunities that result from the experience.