I don't like the dismissive 'fear of failure' and I don't like the default answer of 'what if you have a family' and this post has little else.
And failure isn't scary, being old and unaccomplished is? Come on, that deserves some more introspection than that! You're still driven by fear if that's the case.
Much more interesting is what are the real motivations if you don't accept fear of failure is the reason. Or if you do, then what to do about it. Or if you ask what is there about failure to be afraid
of (and you aren't allowed to say 'nothing really' because that dismisses the fact that you are afraid of it).
Motivation and fears are way more interesting than this gives them credit for.
And failure isn't scary, being old and unaccomplished is? Come on, that deserves some more introspection than that! You're still driven by fear if that's the case.
Much more interesting is what are the real motivations if you don't accept fear of failure is the reason. Or if you do, then what to do about it. Or if you ask what is there about failure to be afraid of (and you aren't allowed to say 'nothing really' because that dismisses the fact that you are afraid of it).
Motivation and fears are way more interesting than this gives them credit for.