How do you overcome a fear of failure?

Question

I never put in 100% into anything for fear of it not being enough.All my professors agree I have huge potential and would go very far in life if I were to overcome this fear.

Answer 1

Well since the day one I came to this earth is already a failure. My past life could be considered a failure. My parents treated me as their biggest dreadful failure and mistake in their entire life time ever. So... I guess all I do is to devour and acknowledge failure and mistake inside me and making it my own best friend.
Failure is really important because it makes you grow and change to be the better version of yourself. Failure is needed in this life for everyone. Without failure one really cannot change and grow up to be mature. Failure brings you experiences and lessons of life that really would make you grow and be able to see things in this life from different point of views. Live, learn and make mistakes to know who you really are. I make mistakes all the time as a human - whether I like it or not. And it's really fine and okay to make mistakes in your life. By making mistakes we know who we really are and how strong we are to face the reactions that came after from all our actions before. But you can't be a victim. For every action there is a reaction. Basically you pull in what you've pulled out. So then you can really take good lessons and learn some positivity from your mistakes after and being responsible for all the mistakes you've done in your life.... Taking risks is also important. You will never know yourself if you never take risks and failure never happened to your life. The analogy is like this : how can you know that this knife is sharp enough to slice if you never try it so. If you only think and believe that this knife is sharp enough to slice something but you never do so with that knife.... Everyone has to fail in some points in their life to know how tough they are when they are in a real life struggles. Failure really makes you tough and a true survivor.

Answer 2

I had and still have the same problem. I am jumping in starting my business, Take an Attitude back up with no expectations at all. Ten years ago they didn't have all in one printers and photo makers or do it yourself web design, or Pay Pal. With those tools available to me I hope that will at least make me give 90% Try to be more focused. You know you have huge potential so focus on that and not fear of failure. The second you feel the fear coming on tell yourself you have not only great potential but also convince yourself there is no way you can fail. Also, remember success is the journey not the destination.

Answer 3

Fear is a huge obstacle to reaching your dreams|

F.E.A.R. is False Evidence Appearing Real.


The best thing to do is to simply dive in with gusto|

If you are doing the right thing with integrity, it will always work out|


But the malicious are always on the look-out for the good person|

If you do the right thing, they will twist it, and then set up a punishment for you| In other words, they will try to set a trap|

When you see this coming, don't fear, but again do the right thing that you know how to do| That will deflect that particular evil, but they will set up another trap for you|

As evil after evil comes at you through the malicious designs of the cowardly, who only want to ruin your happiness, just keep parrying them by doing the right thing in each case|


That way, you can't lose|





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Answer 4

ah ! yes kakorrphiaphobia --- better known as the fear of failure ---- but who said (says ) so --- your professors ? if so --- they are the ones inciting this "fear " .
you don't need ' 100% to get over the line for pass marks .
if you can get near ; say 70 to 80 ; then you should have the opportunity to work on the other percentage difference in due course .
if your professors are psychologists --- then they have right to pass judgement ; and hopefully will give you advice --- if not -- then they should pull their heads in and get back in their cage
good luck --- but get a second opinion if you do nothing else .

Answer 5

its always the fear that you have great potential and you are scared to not reach that potential, forget about what anybody is telling you just do whatever you want to do and give it 100% everytime you do any project and if it fail just think all is not lost because you try your best and its not enough and world will be still here this afternoo, this evening, or even tomorrow.... the existence of the world does not defends only on on individual its defend on billions of individual, you are just a manute speck in the big pictures of things here on earth!

Answer 6

I think I suffer from that too. I guess every one does.

Answer 7

You are not alone every body has it, just keep the concentration

Answer 8

Start succeeding at stuff.

Answer 9

have faith in yourself and you will do well eventually!