It’s not only failure you fear. Success would change things, raise the stakes, ask more of you, move you away from people. So you keep it at arm’s length.
“What would you have me know about my fear of it actually working?”
Some additional insights around this question:
- What would getting what you want require you to change?
- Who or what are you afraid you’d outgrow?
- What would you have to be willing to hold if it succeeded?
