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In school, there are no positive failures. Especially if you're like me and you're used to hyper-competitive academic environments. At some point, the avoidance of failure morphs into a fear of failure. Through many failures of my own, I've started to learn that failure itself hardly bothers me. But the shame I feel every time I fail? Well, that's enough to keep me from trying anything new ever again. Tune in this week to hear how I'm using failure to work through my fears.
In school, there are no positive failures. Especially if you're like me and you're used to hyper-competitive academic environments. At some point, the avoidance of failure morphs into a fear of failure. Through many failures of my own, I've started to learn that failure itself hardly bothers me. But the shame I feel every time I fail? Well, that's enough to keep me from trying anything new ever again. Tune in this week to hear how I'm using failure to work through my fears.