What's Stopping You?: Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential, and How You Can

50 : 50s

A final point on judgement deals with those 50 : 50 choices – especially when it isn’t always apparent which route best supports our long-term objectives. Deciding between closely aligned university places, career paths, job offers, promotions or even potential employees are key moments in our life and they can, for the High-FF, trigger fear-based insecurities that lead to false evaluations and major mistakes, or indecision at best. If life comes down to a handful of decisions, these are them – and they are usually the moments, above all else, that provide the monkey with resulting evidence he needs regarding our innate awfulness.

There is no easy way of dealing with such decisions, and no way of completely removing the fear. My own ...