In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
The interesting thing about fear of failure is that it’s just one form of the fear of change.
What people really fear is change.
Why?
Because our emotional brain references ancient programming from early Man that insists that change often leads to death.
But the threats that plagued early Man simply don’t exist anymore.
But the fear lives on . . . .
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