Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org, and in this quick self-help segment, we are going to talk about fear failure and how to overcome it.

So I'm going to give you some quick and practical techniques and insights for how to really deal with the fear of failure.

All right, so what is the fear of failure?

Let's talk about that for a second. Fear of failure is basically something that every one of us has.

This is what holds every one of us back from living a charged kind of life,

from living to our full potential.

Because that is that the world is dangerous.

There are things out there that we need to look out for.

And that in our biology, in our psychology, through hundreds and thousands of years of evolution,

what has happened is that we've been programmed

with just ways of thinking and dealing with situations

in fearful ways, because fear is a very good quick hit of

stimulation that gets you to change your behavior and that is kind of like the

carrot and stick model of motivation.

And that's how our reptilian brain works,

is that when you're faced with a real danger,

when you're walking through the jungle,

and all of a sudden you see a tiger, then you've got literally a physical

response happening in your brain, especially in your reptilian brain that is just taking over all of you and it is sending you into action.

That's the flight or flight response and all of a sudden your gear, you're motivated within a split second, you're filled with adrenaline and you're off you're running away or you're grabbing a stick to fend off the tiger whatever you're doing.

So that's totally natural and that's the environment we grew up in because

we've evolved through millions of years of survival of the fittest, right? It is kind of a dog-eat-dog world. But actually now that we're living in a more humane society

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