I would have been truly successful at work if I hadn't told some of my male bosses to keep their hands off me and stayed off TV during the fight for the ERA. Despite all that I did better than average.

My entrepreneurial ideas might have worked but I did have a fear of losing security which I guess is similar to a fear of poverty.

Feeling not good enough is common in children of alcoholics and drug addicts.

Fear of Failure is the one that most people have an issue with when setting up their own business.
A good way to look at failure is that when you fail, it only becomes a failure if you don't learn from it. Otherwise we have to fail again and again to learn how to be successful. People who never fail, Never succeed.

Nothing to fear but fear itself may refer to: A phrase from the 1933 inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Is it fear as much as worrying too much and over thinking. Some fears I have no control over, so I try not to think about them, such as worrying about my children (who are all grown & married) or growing old. Others, I do have some control over say 'finances' for example, I have a secure job and live within my means. Currently, I'm working on me fear of driving on busy unfamiliar highways/expressways by reading maps and getting myself familiar with interstate road signs, mile markers etc. One of my dreams is to drive cross country when I retire.

Mine is fear of being imperfect (ie. not being perfect). This covers many of those fears on the list. I was raised to have perfection as the minimum standard. If it’s not perfect it’s failure. Apparently I failed a lot because I couldn’t always be perfect (if ever). I self-sabotage a lot because I’m often afraid of doing or trying something for fear that I couldn’t be perfect in doing it. I missed many opportunities and I ended up quitting programs and jobs because I couldn’t handle the stress of trying to be perfect (and failing at it sometimes). I’m a little better now but I’m still haunted by the shadow of that fear looming over me at times.

8. Fear of gods.

Would you call me an insensitive egotist if I said I really don’t think I’m fearful of anything on that list? I wouldn’t say I’ve had a particularly successful life..if seen through other people’s eyes, but I’ve had a happy one and have no real regrets looking back over my 75 years..I expect that in itself could described as a success!

I feared reading this list. I have listophobia.

But then I did.

Fear is crippling, it's what has held me (and friends and family) back from many opportunities. I believe that overcoming fear is essential to getting ahead in life; obviously, there are other obstacles in our way, but the one we place in front of ourselves is sometimes the most difficult to get past.
P.S. The fear of offending others is slowly dissipating as I get older; I would never blatantly insult someone unprovoked. Respect and politeness is something I value in all interactions but if something I say causes you serious offense I don't really care.

These blogs, do they EVER come from people that have experienced said fears due to mental health struggles or through envrionmental stressors? If this is just neurotypicals giving one size fits all advice to the general population, it needs to be taken with a HUGE grain of salt, imho.

If I was afraid of poverty, failure, or looking foolish, I certainly would not have chosen a career in music. As for offending people, no problem if it is my intention. Success is very subjective. As for getting old, being cavalier about aging is easy when you are young or even middle aged. GETTING OLD SUCKS! I am in good health, and there is nothing I have found good about it. Most people don't fear death. What they fear is the how. That is a real and understandable fear.

Criticism my not be quite the right word, criticism can be constructive perhaps censure would be a better word choice?

I would add the fear of challenging preconceived notions.

My favorite Bruce Lee quote is Seek safety in the heart of danger. To me this means if you are scared of getting hit (by life or whatever) you will get hit, and it will be worse.. because you are spending all your energy scared. I might fear things like injuries that impact my ability to work, or a suffering lingering death.. but I don't waste much time on those fears.

I only have one person that I care about what they say.
Born into a poor family, and still poor.
I'm 53 yo, looking forward to my 80's.
If I fail, I get up and dust myself off and try again.
If someone is upset over what I say, that is their problem.
I try not to do foolish things.
I don't fear success.

I am uncomfortable with "truly successful." No offense as it is a commonly used term, but it is ill-defined.

If you can define with some level of rigor as to what it means, then you can assess your success or failure.

My biggest fear growing up was not realizing my potential; I knew I had potential but came from a horrific background. Better to say I gave it a shot but didn't get as far as I thought I wanted to when I set out. Success is realizing you actually did fine, regardless of where you ended up. (Assuming you weren't consciously an idiot, failing for reasons you control rather than those you don't.)

I done OK

Without a common definition of "successful", I think they are meaningless. My life experience has shown me that my definition of successful is not necessarily the same as my neighbor's or even my members of my own family.

Fear of mediocrity, that it will just become a repetitive drudge, neither wholly failed nor successful, yet still a binding commitment.

I must be a freakin' billionaire, then......

Fear of being broke is my greatest motivation

Sad, so many Fears to face but my personal philosophy is something like this,
" Bugger those who critcise me for how I look, how I dress, how I think, etc, etc for I am ME and there is No other like ME, I know I am growing older every minute of every day, that IS inevitable, I know that I don't have much but what I do have IS mine and I enjoy what I've got, Failure is a part of Life, learn from each Failure and Strive to do better next time, If others take offense then they can take the gate as well ( a bit of joke btw), there is nothing wrong with being or looking foolish it only causes bother to those who are adverse to doing so, If you want to measure personal success do NOT measure it by what you have NOT achieved, measure it instead by the good things you done for others."

Absolutely agree

I think that there’s one thing you must do: decide what success means to you and achieve it, sometimes time after time. Plus reassess those goals regularly to make sure you’re still on track
I think changing some of those fears e.g. realising when criticism is useful and constructive or when offending others is a real concern, is valid. Totally discounting your fears can be detrimental, if you don’t work through some of them they may come back and be debilitating, it’s important to have good friends that can understand them and help put them into perspective too.
What do you think?

At some point in my life I've had them all .

fear of disapproval/disappointment