Our society has made us think so much about checking these boxes, right? If you don't f you can't succeed, if you're not going to get the promotion, what's the point in applying. Success for whom the reason you should try is because you want to. Even if you don't succeed now, you will learn something from it. You will prepare yourself next time around. Because at the end of the day, who ends up succeeding? It's the people who are ok with failing - that's the biggest paradox.