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Why do you fear failure?
Daily Meditation 725–2/20/2024
I’ve written about failure in these DMs fairly often. We tend to have a very bad relationship with failing, placing it in on a pedestal of fear and holding negativity with it, emotionally.
And let me be super clear — failing does sting. It really sucks when you invest time, emotions, effort, and resources into a relationship — and maybe it buds into a marriage, children etc — and then discover they were cheating on you since the third week you’d begun dating…years ago. It really feels catastrophic and like the ultimate betrayal, as if you don’t even know if you can trust yourself and your own judgements.
Thank God, however, most failures are not so apocalyptic.
Regardless of this, we still view failure with terror. I’m sure many a man reading this remembers the utter fear of approaching a young woman in middle or high school to ask them on a date — “But what if she rejects me?!” Sound off in the comments if you also experienced that as a teenager!
The “What if” of PRE-failure is what keeps us so often from even attempting things — dates, businesses, asking for raises, or getting a gym membership — as we don’t even want to experience the chance of failing. Our pride, our ego gets in the way and thus…
