Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 417 or if you're in my program,

it is episode 647. Now, on this episode, I would like to talk to you about the perception of failure.

Now, this could be where you have failed, supposedly, or even the fear of failure.

I always kind of tend to lean on the idea that the failures that we experience will obviously increase

the notion or the thought process of the fear of failing again there is the other side as to where

people tell us certain things over and over again or we just experience as an observational

point of people failing even and then us perceiving that to be our own so we can like

borrow other people's reality of failing or we can experience it ourselves which will then give us

the idea of the fear of failure us the idea of the fear of failure.

And the consequence of the fear of failure could be the either failing in itself or in itself

again by not actually doing it.

That can be a version of failing because you have a dream or a goal, yet you kind of don't do it, so therefore you are failing, right?

So if we think of that as an idea, then we will always never fully complete our goals and dreams.

Now, I want to give you an example, a series of examples,

where people do not consider failure as an end. Think about it. The fear of failure or the

fear or the failure itself is an end point. It's a final thing and therefore you won't do it. We have

failed at it. We have just given up on whatever that goal, dream or action is. It is something

that many people experience and you may feel that way too.

That feeling of failure, failure that just causes you to sink low, what causes you to have

worried or anxious or doubting thoughts.

The inner self-critics saying, look, just give up now already. You failed, so why even

bother? It is a common thing that many people experience. Now, if you have that as a mindset,

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