Fear of Failure or Failure as Fuel

Mental Performance Daily with Brian Cain · Jul 7, 2022 · 4m

In this episode Brian discusses the fear of failure and using failure as fuel. Nervousness is an excited state grounded in worry, which, in turn, can create a feeling of anxiety strong enough to affect behavior. A competitor who knows or believes he is able to cope with (i.e., control) threatening events diminishes his fear of them. Fears tell lies. They suggest to the competitor that situations he will face are more difficult to deal with than they actually are. People with internal control are able to cope with fears because they come to understand the fears are their response to-their…