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Are You A Failure Germaphobe?

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Are You A Failure Germaphobe?

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Try to learn to play a musical instrument when you have no talent at it. Attempt a small project that’s beyond your technical abilities. Ask for a job, promotion, or raise when you know the other person will say no. Ask for a date when you’re sure to get shot down cold. Cook a meal that’s beyond your cooking skills. Sign up to run in a 10K race when you can’t even run 1K, and show up and run half a block.

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It’s been said that if you want to increase your success rate, you should increase your failure rate. Success comes at least partially from your volume of attempts.

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It’s been said that if you want to increase your success rate, you should increase your failure rate. Success comes at least partially from your volume of attempts.

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Go out and attempt something at which you know you’ll fail.

Fail on purpose.

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There are several significant benefits to attempting something even when failure is certain:

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Make failure your friend, and success will tag along as well.

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You’ll gain experience failing, how to take it, and how to recover from it, which is at least as important as learning to handle success.

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You’ll develop greater humility, and this will allow you to subvert your ego more

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You’ll run straight into your limits and become comfortable working butt-up against them, instead of lagging behind your untapped potential with a comfortable padding.

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You’ll strengthen your resistance to fear of failure in the future.

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Many tasks at which you ultimately fail will still yield partial success.

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Just ask yourself, “What small thing can I fail at today?” Then go do it. Have some fun with it.

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You’ll develop a thicker skin.

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You’ll become more persistent.

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You’ll condition yourself to take action and stop ruminating. You’ll tear yourself away from the state of analysis paralysis, and you’ll start making things happen instead of just pondering and planning them.

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Every once in a while, you’ll learn that you were wrong, and you’ll succeed at something even when failure seemed certain. You’ll drop limiting beliefs and gain a more accurate grasp of what’s realistically possible for you. You’ll discover new talents you never knew you had. You’ll learn that your previous concept of what you thought was realism was in fact too pessimistic, and you’ll slide it down a notch closer to optimism until you get it just right.

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Fear of failure and fear of rejection hold many people back from setting and achieving big goals. So it’s critical to develop a strong immunity to both.

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Another problem with failure germaphobia is that you’ll have to avoid successful people.

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