Cosenza.GritandtheFearofFailure by julia cosenza

Angela Duckworth

juliavcosenza — 2025-09-25 12:44:34 UTC

“Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each one of them is doable” (Duckworth 38).

Laurie Hyatt

juliavcosenza — 2025-09-25 12:45:19 UTC

“Although striving for perfection would seem an admirable trait, for gifted adolescents, perceived failure can lead to guilt, depression, anxiety, and even suicide. Many gifted adolescents do not give themselves permission to be less than perfect” (Hyatt 140).

Karen Rowa

juliavcosenza — 2025-09-25 12:46:07 UTC

“Fear of Failure can exist even when someone does not likely have a diagnosis of a mental disorder. It is likely closely linked to perfectionism, which is common across the aforementioned disorders” (Rowa 40).

Karen Rowa

juliavcosenza — 2025-09-25 12:46:26 UTC

“The fear of failing exists on a continuum of severity. Most people have experienced at least mild fears at some point in their lives that they will not be able to succeed at something that is new or challenging. When this fear is mild, people can often persevere and continue to work towards their goals. However, for some people this fear becomes so severe they will not even try something” (Rowa 40).

Benson, Nicholas, Taku

juliavcosenza — 2025-09-25 12:47:02 UTC

“..it can encourage individuals to not look at experiences as being solely debilitating to one’s psychological wellbeing, but as an opportunity for growth in one’s perception, wisdom, and motivation for success” (Benson, Nicholas, and Taku 699).

juliavcosenza — 2025-09-25 12:59:46 UTC

Striving for perfection leads to fear of failure among other things

Benson, Nicholas, Taku

juliavcosenza — 2025-09-25 13:02:20 UTC

“In contrast with the negative impacts on failure, some instances of perceived failure can lead to more positive outcomes, such as wisdom” (Benson, Nicholas, and Taku 693).

juliavcosenza — 2025-09-25 13:03:30 UTC

instead of letting fear overtake you, do it anyways and learn from it

juliavcosenza — 2025-09-25 13:07:12 UTC

you can analyze where you went wrong, and fix that specific thing, and you can continue to be great