Advice for the Real World Handling Self-doubt: the Fear of FailureBy Chaz Kyser
When you are overcome with self-doubt and the fear of failure, you can become a barrier to your success.
That frustrated voice inside your head that tells you the goals you’re working towards can’t be accomplished, and you’re not good enough, smart enough, attractive enough, talented enough, or man or woman enough to accomplish them anyway, can be more detrimental to your livelihood than racism, sexism and ageism combined. Feelings of self-doubt and the fear of failure aren’t foreign to anyone. These two cousins of discouragement strike people at various points in their lives, usually when there is something they’re hoping to achieve.
These negative feelings are what kept many of your high school classmates from going to college. They caused some of the people who entered college with you to drop out. Self-doubt and the fear of failure even managed to keep students who stayed in college from majoring in what they wanted to because they felt the classes would be too hard for them.
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