stopping and saying “take” before they
were actually climbing at their limit and
really trying. Then I suffered an injury and
had a lot of time off so I started studying.In one of your articles on your
blog, you discuss the importance
of failure. Do you teach about
fear in your coaching?Yes, fear of failure is massive. So much of sur-
face issues with people whittle down to fear
of failure which sometimes whittles down
to fear of what other people might think. I
think that we hugely underplay the role that
our perception of other people’s perception
of us plays in our own psychologies. When
you really start to look at how much whatever
we do is inf luenced by the fear of what other
people think it’s quite scary. It is something
that is quite hard to come to terms with. But
it is not like I encourage people to just go
out and fail all the time and never succeed.
It’s more about changing your conception of
what failure actually is. So, while coaching, I
try to get people to adopt a positive concep-
tion of failure.
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