Rosie,

Thank you so much for this wonderful piece and your wisdom.
I think we are all raised to fear fear, it is probably a way to protect ourselves from failure and denial.

So there are two questions here: 1) what triggers the fear and also 2) how we handle it.

I try to diminish the factors that triggers my fear, which is from a mentality of scarcity to abundance. If I think I do not have enough argument, knowledge, money, degree, resources, support; I fear to failure. But once I shift that conversation into I have enough, I start taking the risk to try.

Handling the afterwards is also very important, if we fail or get it wrong, it is important to let go and learn from the experience. It is also an mindset that failure is to be celebrated. We fail because we stretched ourselves.