The Cure for the Jonah Complex
And why is it so hard to embrace? Why do big, ambitious goals feel dangerous? Because admitting that you care is opening yourself up to failure. And you’ve been burned before.
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The “self-belief” model of motivation assumes that if you acknowledge the possibility of failure, then you’ll be too demoralized or afraid to take risks. In that model, people who believe that failure is unthinkable are the ones who try the hardest to succeed. Yet in practice, things often seem to work the other way around—accepting the possibility
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Why are we afraid of our own greatness?
Yesterday we talked about the fear of one’s own greatness that is present in all humans.
Now we address the question why is it that we have this fear.
Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow gave us the answer.___LINEBREAK__... See more
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