"Wanting to fail" book ?
December 20, 2009 4:31 PM Subscribe
Book about "wanting to fail" ?
Sometime ago in a previous ask.metafilter thread a book was referenced about people who "want to fail" in things they try to do (or perhaps "feel they should fail") and so arrange things so that they do.
I realise this is the sub-text of many pysch/self-help books but my recollection is that this was a specific book on just this subject and that more than one person in the tread cited it (so perhaps therefore it's fairly well known).
Would welcome suggestions as to what it might have been. Thanks.
Sometime ago in a previous ask.metafilter thread a book was referenced about people who "want to fail" in things they try to do (or perhaps "feel they should fail") and so arrange things so that they do.
I realise this is the sub-text of many pysch/self-help books but my recollection is that this was a specific book on just this subject and that more than one person in the tread cited it (so perhaps therefore it's fairly well known).
Would welcome suggestions as to what it might have been. Thanks.
Response by poster: xil + jgirl - thanks for all those - they all seem in the right area and worth investigating however .... when I search through the green I can only find a reference to one of the four books ("Your Own Worst Enemy : Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement") in previous threads and even that thread doesn't seem quite like what I recall so any other suggestions would be welcomed.
thanks
posted by southof40 at 5:16 PM on December 20, 2009
thanks
posted by southof40 at 5:16 PM on December 20, 2009
The Now Habit has been much discussed and includes discussion of fear of success (as well as fear of failure and "fear of delayed failure.")
posted by Zed at 8:04 PM on December 20, 2009
posted by Zed at 8:04 PM on December 20, 2009
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posted by xil at 4:35 PM on December 20, 2009