I found this really interesting. I excelled academically and was a teacher/lecturer's pet. Yet I have the same fear of failure and looking like an idiot. The ro

I found this really interesting. I excelled academically and was a teacher/lecturer's pet. Yet I have the same fear of failure and looking like an idiot. The root cause is different - I fear failure because I didn't fail often enough growing up and never learnt to process it - but the consequence is virtually identical. The only real difference is that I don't feel spite. I am prone to arrogance though. It seems like there's a sweet spot of failing some proportion of the time, which leads to humble confidence in later life.