How If-then Beliefs Lead To Fear Of Failure (And How To Find Them)
In the 1850s, Napoleon III served meals to his most honored guests on aluminum plates. The lesser guests were served on plates made of gold. At the time, aluminum was incredibly rare and so very costly to obtain. Worldwide production was a few ounces a year. Today, massive amounts of aluminum are produced, and it's so cheap that it's used to make soda cans and to wrap food in our refrigerators. Value seems to follow a simple rule. The more scarce a material, the greater its value. Fear of failure also follows a simple rule. The greater the consequence [...]
How to find the cause of fear of failure in three steps
Tamara puts a bean stew into the oven on Friday. Then before the sun goes down, she turns off the oven and leaves the stew inside. Hundreds of other women in her village in Lithuania do the same. Like them, Tamara leaves the stew in the oven until later on Saturday when she takes it out and serves it to the family. Why did she do this? Tamara and the other women were Jews living in Lithuania in the 1900s and so did not work on the Sabbath which begins sundown on Friday. To serve hot food would require [...]
How If-then Beliefs Lead To Fear Of Failure (And How To Find Them)
In the 1850s, Napoleon III served meals to his most honored guests on aluminum plates. The lesser guests were served on plates made of gold. At the time, aluminum was incredibly rare and so very costly to obtain. Worldwide production was a few ounces a year. Today, massive amounts of aluminum are produced, and it's so cheap that it's used to make soda cans and to wrap food in our refrigerators. Value seems to follow a simple rule. The more scarce a material, the greater its value. Fear of failure also follows a simple rule. The greater the consequence [...]
How to find the cause of fear of failure in three steps
Tamara puts a bean stew into the oven on Friday. Then before the sun goes down, she turns off the oven and leaves the stew inside. Hundreds of other women in her village in Lithuania do the same. Like them, Tamara leaves the stew in the oven until later on Saturday when she takes it out and serves it to the family. Why did she do this? Tamara and the other women were Jews living in Lithuania in the 1900s and so did not work on the Sabbath which begins sundown on Friday. To serve hot food would require [...]
How to find the cause of fear of failure in three steps
Tamara puts a bean stew into the oven on Friday. Then before the sun goes down, she turns off the oven and leaves the stew inside. Hundreds of other women in her village in Lithuania do the same. Like them, Tamara leaves the stew in the oven until later on Saturday when she takes it out and serves it to the family. Why did she do this? Tamara and the other women were Jews living in Lithuania in the 1900s and so did not work on the Sabbath which begins sundown on Friday. To serve hot food would require [...]
How If-then Beliefs Lead To Fear Of Failure (And How To Find Them)
In the 1850s Napoleon III served meals to his most honored guests on aluminum plates. The lesser guests were served on plates made of gold. At the time aluminum was incredibly rare and so very costly to obtain. Worldwide production was a few ounces a year. Today massive amounts of aluminum are produced and it's so cheap that it's used to make soda cans and to wrap food in our refrigerators. Value seems to follow a simple rule. The more scarce a material, the greater its value. Fear of failure also follows a simple rule. The greater the consequence you [...]
Re-post: How If-then Beliefs Lead To Fear Of Failure (And How To Find Them)
In the 1850s Napoleon III served meals to his most honored guests on aluminum plates. The lesser guests were served on plates made of gold. At the time aluminum was incredibly rare and so very costly to obtain. Worldwide production was a few ounces a year. Today massive amounts of aluminum are produced and it's so cheap that it's used to make soda cans and to wrap food in our refrigerators. Value seems to follow a simple rule. The more scarce a material, the greater its value. Fear of failure also follows a simple rule. The greater the consequence you [...]
Re-post: How to find the cause of fear of failure in three steps
Tamara wasn't allowed to cook on Saturday. Yet she served a warm, home-cooked meal to her family that day. Tamara was a Jew living in Lithuania in the early 1900s and so was not allowed to work on the Sabbath from sundown on Friday to sunset on Saturday. She heated a bean stew in the oven on Friday, then turned the oven off just before sunset. By Saturday the food had been kept warm and was ready to serve. Leaving food in the oven overnight might seem odd if we didn't know that rules about the Sabbath were driving [...]
Re-post: Why a hidden belief causes fear of failure (and what to do about it)
In 1864, a brutal winter hit the town of Panguitch in Utah (then called Fairview). The people in the town would soon starve if they could not get needed supplies. So rescue parties were sent out to the nearest towns. One party went north but had to turn back due to worsening weather. The other party intended to go west over the mountains 50 miles to Parowan. To get there, they had to travel through miles of thick snow with their feet sinking at every step. The journey was exhausting. As they grew tired, they began to feel hopeless, so [...]
