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Being afraid of failure: Cover of I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Fear of Failure, Examined One Study at a Time by Diego Segura
I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

Being afraid of failure: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

Fear of Failure, Examined One Study at a Time.

Are you looking for help with “being afraid of failure”? Then this page is a good place to start. I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Fear of Failure, Examined One Study at a Time is one of the titles of I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward, a book by Diego Segura. First, read a short passage from it. After that, try the exercise below, and finally choose where to read or listen.

Being afraid of failure: a passage from the book.

Socrates pokes holes in that, so the second general, Nicias, tries something cleverer: "courage is the knowledge of that which inspires fear or confidence in war, or in anything." Laches is not impressed. "How strangely he is talking, Socrates," he says. But Nicias is saying something close to this chapter's idea: courage is knowing what is actually worth being afraid of.

From chapter 3: Unknown is not unlikely

The people they interviewed feared many different things, and the researchers grouped those fears into themes: financial security, their own ability, their ability to fund the business, whether the idea had potential, how others would see them, whether the business could deliver, and what the time and money would cost them elsewhere. You met most of those fears somewhere in this book. The study's central point is that fear of failure is not simply a brake. The same fear that can hold people back can also drive them on.

From chapter 11: Beginning while afraid

That is how the book looks at “being afraid of failure”: one idea at a time, with a step you can take right away. Of course, this is only one idea from the book. So, if this passage speaks to you, the full chapter goes further, and it ends with an exercise you can do the same evening.

Check your fear in one minute.

Pick the fear that stops you, then answer three quick questions. The result tells you whether this fear is giving you facts or just noise.

The fear that stops me
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If it happened, could you recover within two years?
Could you test it this month without spending much?

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What else is inside I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

In short, the book has 11 chapters, and each one ends with a practical exercise. Therefore, you can read it in order, or you can go straight to the part about “being afraid of failure”.

  1. The safer road
  2. Afraid people see different odds
  3. Unknown is not unlikely
  4. Nobody checked your fear's record
  5. The worst case is written in a law you have never read
  6. What happened to the people it happened to
  7. When the coward is right
  8. Do not calm down
  9. The price of the safe choice
  10. Courage does not delete the fear
  11. Beginning while afraid

Being afraid of failure: where to read it.

Finally, you can get I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Fear of Failure, Examined One Study at a Time in the stores below. Because every title of this book shares the same text, you can simply pick the one you like best. Also, the book is available in 19 languages.