I’d argue that the fear of failure still boils down to underlying beliefs about: - What it actually means to fail - That failure is inherently bad - What wil

I’d argue that the fear of failure still boils down to underlying beliefs about: - What it actually means to fail - That failure is inherently bad - What will happen next after failure occurs - What it says about me when fail - What others will think about me when I fail - That I can’t recover from failure etc. If you grow up hearing that failure is bad/wrong/implies something about you as a person, it might never occur to you that another framing is that life is a series of experiments, and failure can be one of the best ways to zero in on success (in some cases, this may be the only possible way). As far as I can tell, it’s beliefs all the way down, and adjusting certain beliefs can fundamentally transform experience relative to all downstream implications of that belief.