How to get rid of fear of failure

How to get rid of fear of failure or fear of change

We often get scared of starting anything new that is called as resistance to change. Human mental infrastructure is naturally resistant to change since stone age. In Stone age we had to fight with predators and hunt for survival. If humans living in one area migrated to other area they faced unknown dangers and sometimes they even had to flee from the new place. So it become natural tendency to remain at one place usually the place where they born and their parents taught them about the dangers present in their place of residence and tricks to get rid of them.

Due to this, human beings have got resistance to change n their genes. Now situation is different, if you do some changes you will always face new challenges but usually the challenges are not life threatening. e.g. If Mr. 'A’ quits his job and start a new business then what is going to happen? If Mr 'A' becomes successful I he will get profit which will be much multiple times more than the salary, he is getting now but small chance of failure scares him a lot. If Mr. 'A' has 80% chances of success in his new venture and 20% of failure Mr. A should take the calculated risk and start the venture but his worry about 20% chances of failure overpower and usually Mr. A ends up in continuing his job and after few years he loses his present job due to recession in market.

There is nothing constant in the world. Risks are there in every aspect of life and people who are willing to take calculated risk become rich and successful in their lives and people who are adamant to change end up in getting nothing in their life.

Change is inevitable. Change is everywhere e.g. if you are doing some activity in X way before 2 years and now if you are doing the same activity in the same way you are out of the competition. To remain in competition, you need to learn to do that activity according to new business requirements. You will need to learn new technology and use it to do your job efficiently. Today's business is all about speed and accuracy. How fast you can produce & deliver quality product is the key market requirement. It is like a race, even if you are late by micro seconds then you are not first you are second. If you are doing job in corporate environment still you have to compete with the co-workers and have to be more efficient and accurate to save your job, to get good salary hikes and to get promoted.

Learning to change is very beneficial. SO remove fears of failure and go ahead but do some study before doing so. Don’t take blind risks. Take calculated risks and maximize chances of success by deciding appropriate strategy. Take help of others to do SWOT analysis. Use decision making tools like Decision tree, Pareto analysis, Mind Maps. There are many other tools you can use. Use one or multiple tools and if there are chances of success more than 70% then go ahead and do it.