Hello. I am a heart exploration coach, and I am here to help. I will fly free with you, warmly accompany you, and listen to your emotional stories with sincerity.
I'm glad to discuss this with you. People are more afraid of failure than success. Why is that? Your question made me think of another question: is it more upsetting to lose $100 or happier to find $100?
Many people choose the former.
You have also expressed your current worries and anxieties. You have clearly achieved a lot that many people cannot match: a high degree, a top university, a good job, senior management, excellent grades, and basically a life that seems to be going well. However, you still feel anxious inside, full of worry and fear.
Let's tackle this together from a psychological perspective.
There are two states of human existence: survival and living.
When you focus on the past, you see what you've lost. This leads to regret. When you focus on the future, you worry about what might happen. This causes anxiety.
When you live in a state of survival, either regretting or anxious, it's a program the brain has internalized during evolution. It gives you a better chance of survival.
You must live in the present and experience fully what is happening now.
If you want to live in the present, you have to be confident about the future. In other words, you need to feel secure.
A sense of security is a psychological need for stability and security. It is mainly manifested in a sense of certainty and a sense of control. A sense of security is the subjective feeling of whether you feel safe in the future.
Your sense of security is shaped by many factors. The psychoanalytic school asserts that a sense of security is closely tied to a person's childhood development. People's growth environments are complex, and different people have different reasons for a lack of security. However, people who lack a sense of security have one thing in common: they lack confidence in themselves!
A person with low self-esteem has insufficient self-worth and a lack of self-identity. They lack confidence in themselves and rely on external validation to prove their worth.
He needs something from the outside to fill the emptiness inside. You are more successful, but you still have worries and fears.
People with low self-esteem often try to "take control" because they feel insecure when they can't control things. This leads to feelings of fear and anxiety.
A person who feels insecure cannot fill the void of their inner lack, no matter how rich they are externally and materially. They can only rush forward involuntarily and be constantly exhausted. This is a state of existence.
You can heal your sense of safety. You can do this either through self-healing or with the help of professional psychological counseling.
You can make choices by seeing the patterns in the brain.
A Brief History of Humankind states definitively that humans are the top of the food chain because our brains allow us to plan for the future.
The evolution of the brain has allowed the weak human race to stand at the top of the food chain because humans can predict the future. In other words, the evolution of the brain has enhanced our ability to survive. However, as we enhance our ability to survive, we are gradually losing the ability to live.
Despite having escaped the horrors of war and famine and living comfortably in the city, our brains remain in survival mode.
When we work hard for survival, our future fills us with anxiety because it is full of so many uncertain factors, which gives us a sense of insecurity. This insecurity is the fundamental reason why we cannot live in the present.
The only constant in the world is change. There are just too many uncertain factors in the future. Don't waste your time worrying about the future. Live in the present.
Our brains allow us to predict the future, which enables us to avoid danger and survive safely.
There is only one thing we can do: become aware.
To be aware is to "see." Seeing gives us the right to choose, and seeing gives us freedom. When we see this pattern in our brain, we have the freedom to choose. It's simple: when we see the fruit knife on the sofa, we can choose to pick it up or leave it there.
When we really see this function of the brain, you can choose whether you want to sacrifice the present moment temporarily or forever. There is no future worth sacrificing the present.
If we are not happy in the process of living, our whole life is made up of every moment. If you spend every moment working hard for the future, you will realize that your whole life has been sacrificed for the future.
I am confident that the above will be helpful to you. The world and I love you.
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Comments
Failure can feel like a very personal reflection of our worth, and it's hard to separate ourselves from that feeling. Even with all the achievements, the fear of not meeting expectations can be overwhelming.
Fear of failure might stem from societal pressures or past experiences where we were judged harshly. It's tough when success is so emphasized that any setback feels insurmountable.
Maybe it's because we set such high standards for ourselves, and anything less feels like falling short. The pressure to maintain this level of success can create intense anxiety.
It's natural to worry about how failure could impact our career progression or how others perceive us. The thought of losing respect or status can be daunting even for accomplished individuals.
Sometimes, the fear of failure is rooted in uncertainty. We're afraid of what we don't know and how it might affect us, especially in evaluations that can seem unpredictable.