Sometimes the scary part isn’t failing. It’s what happens if you’re actually good and have to keep showing up.

Success asks more of you than failure does, and that part rarely gets mentioned. If it works, you have to do it again, hold the standard, have opinions in public and be the person who is good at this. Some of what you read as fear of failing is really a fear of the schedule waiting on the other side.

Ask yourself honestly which one you are avoiding. If it is the second, look at what the ongoing version would actually cost in hours, weeks and people. Then decide whether you want that life and not only that result.