Re: The Bar & The Fear.
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I know what you mean by the fear, though mine has usually been related to music performance or gaming. Actually I think most really really successful people have learnt how to channel this, since usually how i feel is just 'well, if there is a way to succeed i will just have to work so hard that i find it'.
Sometimes this is like 'wake up from nightmare after 4 hours sleep, go back to 10-12 hour day of whatever it is i have to succeed at'. Funnily enough, without this motivator, I am actually quite a lazy carefree person, so I guess it is good in some ways.
Oh edit for encouragement; usually when I go through these phases I dominate whatever I do, probably because it seems like other people aren't motivated in the same way and it's pretty hard to work really really hard if you aren't afraid of mediocrity.
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