RE: Things That Hold You Back From Doing What You Love
Everything you posted digs into the human psychology. Innately we are an animal that holds great value in survival and because of that innate instinct, we are very good at keeping things in its current state.
Self doubt exist to prevent us from doing something that creates uncertainty.
Fear of failure exist to prevent us from attempting something that creates uncertainty.
Other people's opinions reinforces the first two. Everything is about facing human instinct.
Likewise the ability to understand also allows you to utilize human instinct and maximize your effort. We are really good at projecting our ideas into the future and creating a fantasy. Once we no longer have unpredictability (by fantasizing our future) we begin to develop a great passion to achieve it since we believe it's real. It works great both ways! Great post!
Yes, I agree that some of these things are hard wired into us thanks to evolution, but things have changed. It's a whole new world where we live in today and we need to sometimes overcome our most basic instincts to achieve something in life.
Overcome is a good way to put it. I don't think we can change this instinct without many many years of consecutive behavioral adjustment. Each person is so unique, and so everyone will have a difference experience because the environment keeps changing, hence its difficult to consistently build a new mental framework over many generations. You just inspired me to write something about that very topic!!
Wow... Nice comment @motoengineer love your own submissions to this philosophical post