Why Is Fear Important To Being Successful?

Fear can be very beneficial in your life growing up, but it can also have a negative effect on you. I believe fear is the only thing that can truly hold us back in life because our minds are powerful beyond all measures. The fear of not succeeding is the biggest struggle we face today. For instance, as kids a big majority of the population wants to be either an NFL player or an NBA superstar. In order to obtain these goals, you have to work to improve your game every day and make various sacrifices in order to work out enough. Every child knows this, but the biggest question is why don’t we do it then. The answer is we are afraid of devoting so much time, so something in life and then not succeeding at it. This is the same case for college students everyone has an idea of what they want to do with their life, but they may just not want to go to school long enough to get the required degree in which they desire. For instance, I used to want to be a physical therapist, but I didn’t want to risk not getting into PT school and the being stuck so I decided to go
I used to see all my friends having fun on rides such as roller coasters and drop zones. Yet, my fear of heights just wouldn’t let me join them. This made me feel left out, as if I was an outcast or someone that no one wanted to be around at amusement parks. Even my parents used to fuss at me because they would buy tickets for the rides, but I was just too scared to ride them. I always thought whenever my feet left the ground something bad was going to happen to me. This is why I did my best to make sure I kept both feet on the ground. I turned down a trip to California with my grandparents because I was too afraid to fly. As life went on I started to turn down more and more opportunities to travel because they required getting on a plane, but then one day I decided I was tired of letting chances to travel across the world pass