Why Do Some Athletes Have A Fear Of Failure

From the time a child is born to the day that they die, they will be told countless times to dream big. People tell them to reach for the stars and pursue the things that make them happy. Something they do not tell them is how powerful failure can be; how it can alter a person’s perspective on life and the direction they think they need to go with their future. Ever since I was a little girl my life’s goal in the FFA was to become a State FFA Officer. The concept of being able to positively impact someone’s life and promote an industry that I believe in whole-heartedly got my blood pumping. I was not prepared for failure, I only thought about success.

Second competitions terrify me. As soon as people have expectations of my performance, my mind convinces me I will fail. So, I just quit. Why? I have a paralyzing fear of failure. My friends assume telling me, “just don’t be afraid!” will help, but just like telling them “stop fearing spiders!” does not work, neither does this. In 1960, psychologist John Atkinson discovered atychiphobia, the irrational fear of failure that holds back an individual so strongly they refuse to try anything they cannot assure their success on. Many who suffer from atychiphobia have careers well beneath their intelligence level because they cannot challenge themselves. However, as a teenager, I have accomplished what many people living with atychiphobia have not: I learned how to beat it.

Lebron James once said, “Don’t be Afraid to fail this is the way to succeed.” This quote has many reasons he tells us with all his achievements he has failed as well it’s a normal person thing to do. Failing will give us knowledge on what he or she did wrong and that person will have a idea how to fix it and then you can start winning or succeeding in life. Maybe a person can’t find a way to succeed or win by failing maybe that’s just not something they’re good at but on themselves know what they’re good at and take matters into our own hands and fix that. Go pick something yourself loves or good at but if you’re okay with losing than that person is probably not a

Through his years of playing and coaching, John Wooden has become a wise man and has gained high-priced knowledge. Sharing his success with others, is one of Wooden’s main goals. Some people believe that success is always winning; however, this is not true at all. Defeat helps a team to be able to come back even stronger. Losses are not always terrible; they can help you learn from your mistakes in order to be able to execute better the next time. Wooden says “much as I hated to lose...this defeat was beneficial” (Wooden 155). With success, comes defeat. In order to succeed, you may need a few setbacks. Even though you might be fighting your hardest, you still might come up short, and that is acceptable. In this novel, Wooden tries to help the reader understand the different elements that come along with success. He uses his own personal experiences to inspire and impact the lives of coaches and players with his same

I believe Jimmy Connors best embodied my attitude toward failure in his iconic quote, “I hate to lose more than I love to win.” As someone who has actively participated in sports all throughout high school, as well as serving captain of the varsity football team this senior year, I am no stranger to Failure. As time goes on I have noticed the losses tend to stick more than the wins. I believe this is because of all the ‘what if’s that accompany failure. What if I had been a little bit faster? What if we didn’t drop that pass? What if we stopped that play? No matter the team, no matter how hard we played, every loss always left me with these same questions times 1000. However, no loss was more impactful than this year’s Thanksgiving day game

The intended audience for this book are athletes, but anyone can read this book because his philosophies can be used in our daily lives. The book spreads forty lessons in four parts: Part I - Welcome to the Inner Game Part II - Living the Dream Part III - Mind-Set for Success

. . paralyze [mavericks, dissenters, and dreamers] by insisting that every step be a step up to the next rung of the ladder.” I completely agree. To tell people that have potential, ability, and talent, that they ought to succeed without ever tasting failure, this is not only unrealistic but also deprecating. In so doing, we hold them back; for we do not tell them about all the times that things did not go according to plan. Additionally, we do not tell them about our missteps; we only tell them about our achievements. Parents say “Don’t fail!” and cause their children to become more prone to deficiency. This is why we must let it be known that failure is a part of life, and that to go through it simply helps to eliminate paths that will not lead to

“I’ve failed over and over in my life, that is why i succeed.” Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team. He didn't just give up after being cut, he turned it into motivation to work harder. He came back the next year and made his varsity basketball team. For that reason being, losing is a good thing to experience.

    Have you ever felt like you loss but since you did, you wanted to strive for better? Determination is what drives us to success, so without it what would we be able to do? Failure causes determination for us to win. If we fail, should we give up? No, we shouldn’t, we should get up and keep fighting and trying to win and succeed. LeBron and his friends failed, but they had determination to win the National Championship. LeBron and his best friends learned about life from the game of basketball: their losses from their basketball games taught them to become stronger and better as a basketball player and a better person outside of basketball.

I watched The Best Motivation Video, Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial and Best Motivational video ever by Nick Vujicic and I learned how they got to succeed after they been through fail like Michael Jordan like he said in his video (I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.) and we all know how is Michael Jordan was successful in his life, also he was one of the best basketball players in the whole world. Jordan accomplishment his life success by keep trying and never giving up dreams no matter what' happen. Learning from our mistakes is so important to be successful in this life, we all should remember life is a risk and we do not have anything to loss so we should take it.

Wayne Gretzky is a great example of why you shouldn’t give up, but simply retry. He is one of the greatest National Hockey players of all times. He has a successful career, but also knows about failing. His advice in life is “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” - Wayne Gretzky. The expert at anything has failed at one point in life. So we shouldn’t expect success to be

“Never had I stopped, so why should I start now.” I thought, as every inch of my body plead in agony, especially my feet. It’s a silly motto; however it helped me throughout many challenges in my life. With it, I never gave up even when the only plausible option was to resign. Throughout every risk there was a reward. A lesson learned, that in every competition you better yourself as a person, you grow in confidence, and winning is not the only definition of success.

Experts say that in order to be successful you have to fail first. Superstar athlete Jeremy Lin failed and then became a success when none of the NBA teams drafted

Helping Football athletes overcoming fear in their sport is very difficult for some football coaches and parents, because they find that sometimes what worked for them does not work for the athlete. In this video, I will give you some techniques I use so you can learn hopefully so new ways to help your athletes get past the football fear of failure.

Sports is one popular example of learning from your mistakes from the past and improving yourself afterwards. Muhammad Ali once said,” I hated every minute of training, but I said,’ Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” These were the exact words from a former heavyweight champion boxer and also one of the greatest sporting figures of the 20th century. This legendary hall of famer had fifty-six wins, five losses, and thirty-seven knockouts. Another all-time great sports figure that showed great success off of fixing their mistakes from the past was Michael Jordan. Now, although he’s achieved so many goals