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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Replying to @FitFounder
Counterpoint: Success terrifies them because they feel a little happy and believe something worse must be coming to ruin it. Their external locus of control means things HAPPEN TO THEM, they are reactive in their own life. Sabotage “saves” them from bad things coming to hurt them
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @FitFounder
Additionally they are terrified of positive attention their success will get because it means others will have higher expectations of them, but their external locus of control means they can’t repeat their success, it was an accident that happened to them. They’re doomed.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @FitFounder
Sabotaging their success lowers others’ expectations of them in a less catastrophic way and decreases their stress that they’ll be too happy and then get so disappointed they can’t go on. They’d rather be comfortably miserable than crash extra hard and die.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @FitFounder
It’s all about damage control in advance for a crash they know is coming. Sabotage is their self protection.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @FitFounder
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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