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Why People Fear Success - 0242

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4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Joel and Antonia explore the reasons why people fear success and what we can do about it.

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

0:08.0

And I'm Antonia Dodge. A couple of weeks ago on the podcast, I revealed that I'm at a premise level questioning in my life right now.

0:18.0

Like I'm going through all the sort of the things that I just made assumptions about and I'm going back and

0:26.0

reviewing my assumptions and I'm allowing myself to have some time to really

0:30.8

ruminate on some of these things like very conscientiously making decisions.

0:36.6

And one of the things I'm questioning myself around is whether or not I would like to basically meet my full

0:46.2

potential as a person. Do I want to take personality hacker or maybe not even this business but just some of the things that I've learned

0:56.0

or taught myself or some of the skills I've developed do I want to take it to a bigger level or

1:01.5

do I just kind of want things to stay the same and maybe just keep

1:05.2

doing podcast and running a smaller business and you know seeing how that pans out and

1:12.3

I think one of the things that's been

1:15.0

been coming up for me is this idea that I might actually have a fear of success,

1:21.0

something that I hadn't really considered before. We've talked on the

1:24.2

podcast about imposter syndrome and the fear that you are, you know, you're going to be

1:29.0

found out and everybody will know you're a big fraud.

1:32.8

And there have been times I've had imposter syndrome,

1:35.6

but I think most of the time I've been able to get through that

1:38.9

by going, well, I think we're all kind of imposters

1:41.2

on this planet.

1:42.0

Like, most of us are just sort of faking it until we make it. But this idea of fearing success, that's something that's been a new thought for me.

1:50.9

Particularly because I've asked myself if I want to go, if I want to do something bigger,

1:57.8

if I want to have this big impact, I've been sort of propagandizing myself for years and years that I want to have, then what's stopping

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