Why do we need to reach our full potential?
Fear of success is robbing the world of our talents
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This week on the podcast, my co-host Anna Codrea-Rado checked into ‘poderapy’ (yay/nay?) and we diagnosed that her fear of success is holding her back from reaching her full potential. For the episode, I spoke to Dr Punit Shah, who’s a psychologist at the University of Bath. Dr Shah told me that when we fear success we feel the same emotions as we do wh…