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I don't know why I'm afraid of failure. I'm already a giant failure. There's a chance you are too.
This isn't a rant, or a poor ole me, so just hear me out. I say I'm a failure because I'm already basically living my personal worst case scenario. I realized this because I'm currently re-reading TMF and @MJ DeMarco suggests that most of us are afraid of failure because we more or less overestimate how terrible the worst case scenario is. I decided to write out my worst case scenario.
Now, you have to eliminate the improbable and super-terrible scenarios that would ruin literally anyone's life, like you get a brain tumor the size of a softball, or your wife and child die in a car wreck. You rule these out because they're highly unlikely, and they're going to ruin your life whether you're rich or you're poor. So, what was I left with? What's my personal hell? What's the daily existence that I fear?
My personal worst case scenario is that I have to wake up to an alarm clock, fight traffic, and go to a job making someone else rich while my wife and child are at home having moments that I miss.
This is a good news/bad news revelation. I'm already living my hell. I'm already a giant failure.
Now, there's a chance that the start up I work for blows up, my options explode in value and I get bonused out of my contract, but it's not a guarantee, and I'm not even in the driver's seat.
So, I spent my free weekend working on a new product and learning some new skills. Whether this start up thing works out or not, I'm not leaving somebody else in the driver's seat of my life.
I'm a lot less afraid of failure than I was. Why?
Because I'm already living my worst case scenario! .... and it's not even that bad.
Pretty freeing, isn't it?
This isn't a rant, or a poor ole me, so just hear me out. I say I'm a failure because I'm already basically living my personal worst case scenario. I realized this because I'm currently re-reading TMF and @MJ DeMarco suggests that most of us are afraid of failure because we more or less overestimate how terrible the worst case scenario is. I decided to write out my worst case scenario.
Now, you have to eliminate the improbable and super-terrible scenarios that would ruin literally anyone's life, like you get a brain tumor the size of a softball, or your wife and child die in a car wreck. You rule these out because they're highly unlikely, and they're going to ruin your life whether you're rich or you're poor. So, what was I left with? What's my personal hell? What's the daily existence that I fear?
My personal worst case scenario is that I have to wake up to an alarm clock, fight traffic, and go to a job making someone else rich while my wife and child are at home having moments that I miss.
This is a good news/bad news revelation. I'm already living my hell. I'm already a giant failure.
Now, there's a chance that the start up I work for blows up, my options explode in value and I get bonused out of my contract, but it's not a guarantee, and I'm not even in the driver's seat.
So, I spent my free weekend working on a new product and learning some new skills. Whether this start up thing works out or not, I'm not leaving somebody else in the driver's seat of my life.
I'm a lot less afraid of failure than I was. Why?
Because I'm already living my worst case scenario! .... and it's not even that bad.
Pretty freeing, isn't it?
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