In the absence of fear we work genuinely, we bring our best out of us and offer it to the world. The world may accept it and we become successful. Or the world may reject it and we can call it a failure. Or, as it happens often, the world accepts some of our work and rejects another some. So we can build our success upon the initial success and work on the part that has been accepted and learn from what didn’t work. We learn and with learning, we become better over time.

Fear on the other hand—if we allow it to mess around with our minds while we are working—keeps bringing doubt in whatever we do. We keep rejecting our own work before we even offer it to the world not because we don’t like the work but because we are afraid of the rejection. When fear mess with our minds, we fail to think in our best so we start producing our second best or even worse. We either give up working on what we wanted to work on or we compromise by producing something and offering it to the world that even we don’t like it much. We are afraid that we might be getting to the point to be too late to have anything to offer.

Fear is not our enemy by itself. When we fail to restrain it, we make it our worst enemy.