CCBA® and CBAP® Certifications Study Guide

Understanding the fear of failure

Now, the fear-of-failure factor has been very well documented in almost every personal development book, and therefore I will keep it brief here. To get to the bottom of the fear-of-failure factor, we just need to quickly understand some basic things every human being does (because we are human!). We all make up stuff as we go through life and we tell ourselves that it is true. So, we believe the stuff we make up, and we even justify those beliefs we have with whatever events created them. The bottom-line fact of this matter is that we make stuff up in order to make sense of our internal and external worlds. Each one of us decides what we believe is true about ourselves in terms of who we are, what we can ...