Why We Are Afraid of Making Mistakes

And how a single word can help you grow and change your life

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If your parents were more or less old-fashioned in your upbringing, chances are you grew up to be a self-sabotaging perfectionist, reluctant to act and terrified of failure.

You may have lived with strict and demanding authoritarian figures that perpetually expected too much…