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The Biggest Risk is Not Trying: How to Overcome Fear of Failure

Name: The Biggest Risk is Not Trying: How to Overcome Fear of Failure
Uploaded: 2024-10-04T20:32:00+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Will Humphreys
Description: Will Humphreys argues that people often become stuck by over-focusing on the risks of failure and imagining worst-case scenarios, which prevents them…

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Will Humphreys argues that people often become stuck by over-focusing on the risks of failure and imagining worst-case scenarios, which prevents them from trying. He contrasts this avoidance with the perspective of successful people, who accept uncertainty and view the greater risk as the loss incurred from not attempting new things.

Most people get stuck because they spend too much time worrying about what the risks are if they fail. And they don't take time to consider the greater risk and fear, which is what happens if they don't try. Most human beings, we're wired to protect ourselves, so the second something new comes up, like an idea, you imagine a worst case scenario and then we stop it altogether. Whereas successful people recognize that even though they don't know what's coming and they might have failure, the bigger risk and loss comes from not trying at all.