Fear of Failure

Hello,

I haven’t written in a while. Let me rephrase: I haven’t posted in a while. I have written, just not anything I felt warranted a post in your inbox.

I thought it was due to being busy, but I now believe it’s because I have been lazy and scared.

Lazy, because it’s okay to be lazy.

Scared, because I previously wrote in the hope that people would read and subscribe. That wasn’t happening, so I stopped. Then I realised that I wasn’t sharing my writing anyway, so nobody was reading, let alone subscribing.

I feared failure.

I also had self-doubt in the sense of who would want to read what I have to say about anything? However, I am currently reading “The Courage to be Disliked,” and it’s making me say, "Forget it." While the book is much deeper than the gist, the essence for me is that if you want to do something, just go for it.

I will write for myself and for the person out there who may like the same things I like.

I still fear failure, but there is no failure if you set no expectations. By expecting nobody to read this, how can I fail?

ChatGPT says my room would look like the image below as a failed writer. They must not know that my room in Dublin isn't that big.

If you want to join me on my journey of expected failure, subscribe so I can get a dopamine hit, please.

-Brandon