CHAPTER 7

FAIL TO SUCCEED

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Fail early, fail often!

—Peter Diamandis

Failure Paralysis

Why aren’t you living the life you want to live? What’s holding you back from your upgrade? For most people, it is simple fear of failure, which paralyzes them, preventing them from unleashing their full potential and moving forward.

We are brought up as children to get good grades, get on the right team, and score the winning goal. If we fail the class, we won’t get into a good school; if we don’t get into a good school, we won’t get a good job; and if we don’t get a good job, we’ll be living at home with our mom and dad for the rest of our lives or living on ...

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