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BY Bernard Marr
Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker
What’s holding you back from landing your dream job or advancing in your career? Are you afraid of failure? Of the stress of more responsibility? Of letting someone down?
Many times the reasons we give ourselves for not going after that new job, not asking for the raise, or not sending in a resume seem legitimate in the moment — but they actually all boil down to fears.
What they all have in common is that they masquerade as something useful: these fears pretend to be protecting you, when in reality, they are holding you back.
Fear of Failure
The fear of failure haunts many people, and holds them back from reaching their true potential. Many people have conditioned themselves not to even try anything new unless they are certain they can succeed. But what this fear won’t tell you is that failure is the only way to learn, and many of the most successful people in the world experienced failures that catapulted them ultimately onto the path of success.
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