Fear of failure grows when outcomes become too important and the mind keeps choosing safety over real change. Planning is natural, but one must not collapse when plans fail. True courage means questioning the old patterns, false confidence, and superficial changes that preserve fear, and looking honestly at the fundamentals of life.
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Originally published in The New Indian Express on 19 nov '22
The cause-effect link in the Universe is beyond all pre-emptive calculation. To the extent, you can plan out, and try to make yourself safe and secure. That is the tendency of the mind, we must not blame it for that. But what if everything fails, would you collapse? Would you? And there would be so many times when everything fails.
You must know that you are thinking, organising, planning and managing, yet, the outcome must never become too significant for you. If your planning succeeds, wonderful. You tried something; it worked, well. Your planning may often not work, which should be equally good.
Now, there is a little bit of a contradiction here. You would say if the failure of planning is as good as its success, then why plan at all? If you can realise this, then don’t plan. But the basic tendency of the mind is to seek security.
