Jacqueline Snyder explains how fear of failure and success trap entrepreneurs in what she calls a "murder basement" of self-imposed limits. These fears stem from inherited beliefs about identity and judgment. Recognizing where your ceiling comes from is the first step to raising it.
The people that are afraid of failure, they're afraid because they think it's going to mean something about themselves. They fall on their face if it doesn't work out. What are people going to think about them? What is it going to mean for them? The other side of that is, well, what if it does happen? What if I can't hold it? What if I can't keep up? You are here, you're an entrepreneur, and you have big goals for yourself. Yes. But if you're afraid of failure and you're afraid of success, where are you? You're stuck in the middle. You've created this really, really, really low ceiling. You've created this murder basement. Ceiling. And when that's happening, where do you go from that? A lot of these things that we bring with us, they're caught and not taught, right? We might have just seen it happening around us. What have you been exposed to to show you that there is an unlimited potential? There is no cap.
