Episode 20: Are We Romanticising Ambition and Avoiding Responsibility?
Thu Feb 05 2026
Fear of success. Fear of failure. Fear of looking cringe.
In this episode, we talk about fear and how it quietly becomes one of the biggest roadblocks to building anything meaningful.
We also touch on:
ambition, and whether it’s actually enough to carry you to successwhether embarrassment is really the price of successwhy our obsession with being “original” stops us from startingwhy inaction often hurts more than trying ever willIf any of this hit a nerve, come try and debunk it with us on the podcast.
Email us: selfstartup.business@gmail.com
Our links: https://linktr.ee/selfstartup
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Fear of success. Fear of failure. Fear of looking cringe. In this episode, we talk about fear and how it quietly becomes one of the biggest roadblocks to building anything meaningful. We also touch on: ambition, and whether it’s actually enough to carry you to successwhether embarrassment is really the price of successwhy our obsession with being “original” stops us from startingwhy inaction often hurts more than trying ever willIf any of this hit a nerve, come try and debunk it with us on the podcast. Email us: selfstartup.business@gmail.com Our links: https://linktr.ee/selfstartup