It’s no news that what keeps most of us from doing that one thing we’ve been thinking about doing is fear that we will fail. We’ll give ourselves all these different excuses for not doing it and basically give in to the fear. But why do we fear failure? Author Seth Godin in his book Tribes states that fear of failure is overrated. He states that what actually stops us from taking that next step is fear of criticism. This would explain why most people would rather jump off a building than speak in public, if we make a mistake while speaking we are completely open to criticism. So if we follow that logic, if we can build at least some immunity towards criticism, imagine how many doors open up for us!