Search Results: fear of failure

Any fears that would indicate success are applicable such as fear of social success, fear of financial success ( being rich ), fear of physical success ( beauty ), fear of cognitive success ( being knowledgeable ) and so-forth-and-so-on.

The reasons can also be any such as fear of ostracization ( from being too smart/ too pretty/ too capable/ too wealthy ), degradation ( from people considering you greedy [wealth], prissy or stuck-up [beauty], know-it-all [ knowledgeable ], etc. ) or general dissent ( where being a certain thing in a certain environment just isn't profitable i.e. being proper in "the hood" or lacking extreme ettiquette on "the estate" or not having a large enough house in the "rich part of town" etc. ) with you. You can also internalize the fears with topics such as fear of personal success because you don't "deserve it" for whatever reason or another.

I personally fear success and as such tend to leave my ideas, great as they may be, or my potential, vast as it seems, at the door and tend to do my worst. It's why I only shine on the internet where I'm not terribly mindful of myself or in emergencies where I can't afford to be terribly mindful of myself. Otherwise I keep the lampshade on.

My fear comes from external judgment as a child which became internal as time went on causing me to essentially become the failure of a man I am today! :D Even now I still suffer ridicule in conversations with people when discussing what is and is not true, even when sourced, simply on the grounds that the irrational folk of the universe enjoy their irrationalities. In short "they believe what they want." As such ... Misanthropy! :D