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Fear Of Failure In College

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After sitting and thinking about challenges that may interrupt or derail my work towards my Bachelor’s Degree at Spring Arbor University, I have come up with two, that I believe I still need to work on in order to be successful. In this writing, I intend on conveying the two issues that threaten my pursuit of a degree as well as the solutions to those issues. I have shown growth in the two areas that I will discuss, as they were the very same issues that I started when I began my education three years ago at Spring Arbor University.

Time management is critical to the pursuit of my degree. If there is no time to do the assignments, if there is no quality time to ensure that the assignments are done right, if there is no time to check and recheck before an assignment is turned in, I do not believe that the work would be of the quality that would be needed to succeed and seeking a degree. I …show more content…

This fear of failure stemmed from my childhood, I was often compared to my brother whom excelled at everything that he touched. Over time I did not believe that I could compete with him and even if I could I felt as if my parents would figure out a way to make him better no matter what. Survival for me at that point was to show no iniative therefore there would be no expectations and the comparisons would stop.

I realize that the crippled me and limited what I believe I could achieve in life, all these years later I still struggle with this. I know that I have great qualities; however, I believe that there is always someone looking at me comparing me, and judging what I do as a wat to belittle me. These thoughts occur in my personal life as well as my professional life. If left unchecked I realize that I will limit myself and do only what is absolutely required, so that any judgement that may come will be limited on what I know I do

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