The Greatest Barrier to Success is the Fear of Failure

This article was updated April 4, 2021. To deal with stressful events, people often revert to patterns of behavior used earlier in development. Anna Freud called this defense mechanism, “Regression,” which suggests that people act out behaviors from the stage of psycho-sexual development in which they are fixated. According to Freud, an individual fixated at…

All personality traits, including confidence, live in the brain. The brain is made up of specialized cells called neurons. These neurons communicate with each other via synapses (the connection between neurons). New synaptic connections are constantly being formed. Also, old synaptic connections are constantly being adjusted. Every time we learn or experience something, the experience…