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Why You Have the Fear of Failure (and How to Overcome It)
By Leon Ho — 2021
Insecurity about doing things incorrectly causes many people to unconsciously sabotage their chances for success.
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When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego’s will to prevail.2