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#568 - Dean Rickles - How To Deal With The Shortness Of Life

Modern Wisdom

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The Inbuilt Fear of Failure

As soon as you posit an ideal, you begin to compare yourself to that ideal. And inherent in that is disappointment when you fall short. So how do you deal with the inbuilt fear of failure? Well, you're always going to fail. But I don't have to me, that's part of being alive. If you've achieved your absolute ultimate goal then you can die pretty happily. Until then, it's the striving that's the interesting thing and meeting the obstacles.

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