Lord, the grandiosity here is breathtaking.<p>You&#x27;ve set it up as: I achieve SUCCESS and am a winner, or I fail again and again and again at everything I do and I&#x27;m a failed startup founder and on my way to death.<p>I understand that voice, I really do, and it&#x27;s the voice of perfectionism coming through grandiosity. It&#x27;s an incredible barrier to success, because your choices are, &quot;I&#x27;m going to write THE BEST math paper!! ! !&quot; or &quot;I&#x27;m a failure.&quot; This keeps you from writing the ones in between that might be crappy and might not be (ask me how I know).<p>It&#x27;s much more functional to break tasks down into concrete items without a value judgement. I&#x27;m going to learn three chords on the guitar. I am going to accomplish the following tasks with the goal of increasing conversions x%. I will see how these efforts work and adjust accordingly.<p>These habits don&#x27;t guarantee success, but they give you the perspective to react proportionately.<p>Kill the voice of grandiosity &amp; perfectionism, which is disguised as &quot;reasonable thinking&quot; because you &amp; I are so smart and really <i>can</i> do some things faster &amp; more easily than others.