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Nobody likes to look stupid. But in order to look stupid, there has to be someone else around who can make that judgment or, at the very least, be the person from whom you infer that judgment. The fear of making mistakes has held too many people back for too long. Much of that fear ties directly back to how we are taught.
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Prentice, S. (2022). The Fear of Looking Stupid. In: The Future of Workplace Fear. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8101-7_7
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