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  • Essay / fear of failure - 535

    Honestly, I feel that my greatest success is yet to come. I believe that I will face greater challenges which will give me a greater sense of satisfaction in conquering them and these challenges will allow me to develop as a person. My biggest achievement so far is overcoming my fear of failure. I was afraid of failure because I have a pretty smooth life and have always excelled academically so I had little contact with failure before. As I was constantly surrounded by high achievers, failure was . I was afraid of being rejected, of disappointing others, of not reaping the desired reward for the hard work I had put in, and of embarrassing myself. I was quite unsettled when I only got an A2 in Chinese Higher, one of my weakest subjects because the result was not proportional. to the amount of effort I invested. I would write 2 essays per week, practice mock articles diligently, follow the news, think about it, and compile/memorize a list of useful expressions and the meanings of unknown words. Yet it seemed that others could do more with less effort and...