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How to Stop Fearing Success

Are you muting your ambition because it feels too selfish?

Heather Havrilesky
May 17, 2021
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Abstraction White Rose (1927) by Georgia O’Keeffe

When you start to get attention and approval for something you’ve created or accomplished, do you become more anxious? Even though you wanted to stop feeling irrelevant or invisible for years, once the spotlight is on you, do you immediately start to cringe and wince in anticipation of punishment?

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