What stops most people is not failure but success. Once they get a result that doesn't match up with their self image they sabotage themselves back to the beginning.
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This needs to be a thread on its own
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Bro I wrote a book

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Exactly. When you self-sabotage, you can blame the sabotage for failure. One of the leading causes of procrastination. Put it off, and when you fail you can tell yourself that you would have done better if you hadn't procrastinated. Identity as a troubled genius remains intact.
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Exactly. Better to control the damage than risk catastrophic failure
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