Is Success The Thing That Scares Us? Or Is It Failure We Really Fear?

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

If you fear failure, the above quote from Winston Churchill can be seen as comforting, failing at something can be a huge blow to our egos.

But what if you aren’t scared to fail? What if succeeding is the thing that scares you most?

Failure is something that some of us are quite prepared for. Before we’ve even set out to do something, that voice in your head is already saying “it probably won’t work out”.

We often prepare ourselves for the worst outcome to protect our fragile egos. If we fail, things will stay as they are and whether we are happy with our current situation or not, it is a lot easier to stay in a familiar situation.

Of course, we don’t want to fail, we’ll feel rubbish about it, sometimes it means we can’t do the things we had hoped for at the time, but ultimately, nothing has changed, and we can usually fall back into our old routines and continue with life as we know it.

Success, on the other hand, isn’t something some of us are prepared for at all. Some of us don’t always fully believe that we will succeed, it’s sometimes easier to think the worst, that way we won’t be disappointed.

Success could potentially bring changes, to our lives and the lives of those around…