(Part 2) What Would You Attempt To Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail?

I thought I would follow up on last week's article.

Enough said on the topic :)



Published on Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com)

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Fear of Failure

By Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D.

Created Feb 13 2009 - 7:40am

Concluding comments
The question now is how do we foster that sense of competence in our lives that is so essential to our well-being? Competence, sometimes known as self-efficacy or our confidence in our ability, is built on earlier success. It is an upward spiral of confidence in our ability based on previous experience. It's also partly perception. When we recall the past, what do we recall? Where do we put our focus? Are we feeding our fears by remembering times when we did fail (because we all do at times), or are we optimistically and strategically focusing on our many successes to bolster our sense of competence? The choice is ours (ok, there are personality differences here, and we may discuss those at another time, but it is ultimately up to us).
As the image of the sign for this blog post said so clearly, "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" The attempt is the "courage to be", and our well-being depends on our moving forward with this courage in our lives.



Next week, I am planning to talk about paying the "dumb tax".