It’s easy to freeze at the idea of failure.
You were GOOD at failure when you were a little kid. You pulled yourself up, stood, fell on your butt or on your face, stood again, took a few wobbling steps, fell on your face, took faster steps, fell on your face.
You learned to crawl, walk, run, climb—all because you were willing to fall on your face to get what you wanted.
You got what you wanted. You made things happen.
When you started having to deal with other people, though, the ones your own age, the ones in school or in your neighborhood, you discovered people were thrilled at the opportunity to make fun of you, to jeer because you didn’t get something right on the first attempt…because they were jerks or jackasses.
It’s at this point that most people stop trying anything risky.
Some manage not to be intimidated by the jerks and keep taking risks, some move their risk-taking to private venues.
But most folks just quit.
Thing is, you can accomplish nothing worthwhile in life without failing along the way. You want to use other folks’ failures as examples of what not to do as you take your own chances, but sooner or later, you’re going to get things wrong.