How can I overcome the fear of failure?

Just do the best that you can and you will not fail.

Challenge your fear by seeing how much you have accomplished in your life till date.

You should embrace failure!! If you never fail, you have never learned anything new. If you never fail, you never know real accomplishment. I have failed so many times in my life but every time I did I learned something and was able to carry that lesson onto my next endeavor. The person who has never failed has never really lived. They have never taken any chances, never had any real adventures, have never known the thrill of succeeding after many tries. The person who has never failed has no real passion in their life and will die having never really lived. Plan well, think things through, do your best and if you succeed that's great. If you fail, find out why and try again. That's living.

It's normal to experience failure. If we failed once, it makes us stronger by learning from it. I think, we do not need to stress too much on thinking about our failure so that it would not hamper our activities.

Just always remember that success is achieved after overcoming several failures.

By making mistakes you can overcome the fear of failure.

NEVER GIVE UP!

Just do hard work and think of your past success. Always stay positive.

What do you fear?

I can only suggest what has worked for me in overcoming similar fears. I say similar because the most important fears I have overcome were irrational - meaning they were inconsistent with reality. From what you've said, this fear of failure bothering you is also irrational. My fears could also become self-fulfilling, in other words the fear itself often caused the very thing I was afraid of to happen. I think your fear and mine are similar in that, as well. So what worked for me was a two-pronged approach. First, I underwent Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with a pair of really tough, no bullshit therapists. Nowadays they have a version called Dialectic Behavioral Therapy as well, but the idea is the same: you find and root out and expose all the illogical, irrational, self-defeating thoughts you have that form the mental basis for you fear, and replace them with logical, sensible, rational thoughts. And you don't necessarily need a psychologist/therapist, though it's best to have one at first. You can find CBT training, workbooks and all that you need online now. I call it "reality therapy," too. It's really quite simple - you examine your thoughts and feelings honestly and critically, and you do not accept any self-deception or nonsense you find there. For instance, when doing something, your first thought is "What if I can't?" Even though you are an experienced professional at your job, and even though to attain that position, you must have done many, many things you feared you might fail at doing, yet did successfully, this is your first thought. You have to see this clearly for what it is - stupid and illogical thinking that doesn't make a damn bit of sense! You have to attack this, view it with disdain and discard it like you would any other really dumb idea or mistaken thinking. Like what if you thought that a red light on a traffic signal meant "yield" instead of stop? You'd quickly see how dumb that thought is, and toss it from your mind with disgust that you ever had such an idea. In truth, that idea is not any dumber than your fear of failure. But you've gotten into the habit, a repetitive behavior pattern, with this fear, plus you don't get direct and immediate feedback from honking horns, angry drivers, and near-collisions, and so it's more difficult to break. You will need to train yourself to actively counter this irrational thinking, with a well thought out, rational list of reasons why your fears are not based in reality and make no sense. You might think of all the ways your fearful thinking doesn't make sense, and write them down on a card or something you can carry with you. Then every time you catch yourself falling back into this habitual nonsensical thinking, pull that list out and dispel fear with solid logic and rationality. You have to repeat this until you internalize the knowledge that your fear is dumb, irrational nonsense that you KNOW isn't real, that the correct thinking IS reality, and train on that until it becomes part of you. One day, you'll find that you truly view this fear as a dumb, silly thing you can't believe you ever felt. You'll find yourself unable to feel it or remember exactly how it felt, even if you try. It will just be gone. Now I said there are two parts to what worked for me. One is attacking the fear with the truth - it doesn't make any sense, and you thoroughly know why it doesn't make sense, and train yourself into proper cognition. For instance, "being afraid to fail does not help me achieve my goals, and in fact can lead to the very failure I fear. Therefore it makes no sense for me to think fearful thoughts or allow an irrational emotion to control me. I'm going to think and do things that are rational and advance me toward my goals." That's one thing that can be on your list, but there are many others, like, "I have achieved many things, and my fears of failing at them were all just bullshit that never came true. The fear I feel now is no different, it's a waste of time and emotional energy that is also never going to come true - and so I reject it. as the nonsense it is. I'm competent, smart, and trained. I've achieved levels of skill in my profession, and a track record of proven success. I have no reason to fear failure." You have many reasons to view this fear as an irritating habit of poor thinking you are better off without. The second part of defeating this fear of failure, for me, was purposely subjecting myself to repeated failures, until I became totally desensitized to it. In my case, it was through introducing myself and asking out many, many beautiful women, in all kinds of situations, including ones where I knew my odds of failure were very high. And so I was rejected, or I "failed" probably 97% of the time. It did not take long for me to feel nothing but peace and calm and happiness when I "failed"" to get a date, or even got rudely rejected or laughed at by a cute woman and her friends. Does not bother me in the slightest now! I'm always a gentleman, I smile and say, "Ok, well it was nice to meet you, and thank you for your time. I wish you a pleasant day! Goodbye!" I can even laugh at myself along with the girls, because I don't feel anything negative at all from such rejections. After repeating such failures 1,000 times and nothing bad happened to me because of failure and rejection, I've internalized the knowledge that these things cannot actually hurt me. In fact, they are good for me. The other way I learned to experience failures and found out they are inconsequential in the long run, was by doing sales and marketing. I am a scientist, and so when I became an entrepreneur, I had to learn how to do sales and marketing. How to make cold calls, how to begin to view rejection and "failure" as something you WANT to happen, because it's a numbers game. If you only close 10% of the prospects you pitch a product, service, or business proposal to, then it takes 9 "no's" to get to one "yes." That means every "no" is just a stepping stone for you, building a path to that next "yes." So bring on the rejections and "failures!" With 9 failures, I get one success, with 900 I get 100 successes, with 9,000 failures I get 1,000 successes! So bring on the rejection and failure by the truckload! Only by having massive amounts of failure will I achieve massive amounts of success! Same with women, or learning a new skill, or many, many other things in life. So I don't know if you are single, or if you have a chance to do any sales work, or what source of repeated failures aligns with your interests, but you need to find something that is going to give you the experience of failure over and over and over again, so that you're no longer afraid of it. That's the second part of overcoming this - desensitize yourself to failure, get used to it and learn by experience that it's actually a GOOD thing, not a bad thing you need to fear. You can do this! You can completely turn around your fear of failure, see it an entirely different way, and become master over it. Oh, it's gonna be painful and uncomfortable, I won't lie! But that's what growing as a person feels like. Remember 1) it's irrational nonsense that's no even real, and 2) You can get used to it, have no fear of it, and even change your attitude to see failure as the positive it is. Let me leave you with a link to an inspirational article about Tom Edison's view of "failure."