Failure

What do you do when you fail like this?

All the pressure is on and everyone is counting on you, the task seems easy enough, it's something you do almost daily... then you choke? Epically? Especially when you're part of a team and you let them down. You feel worthless, like the silent 'P' in raspberry or like the random usage of 'U' in English english (eg. behaviour - ya, we don't really need you after all U).

So, two things come to light with this:
1. Sometimes the easiest skills are taken for granted thus increasing chance of failure. It's when you take your focus off the task at hand or think "I got this, psht" that things go awry. Even the simplest of tasks require our thought and devotion.

2. Humans become dogs when in groups. Psychology Today explains that the need for status drives humans and that we all strive to achieve status. Competition, then, becomes a constant struggle to achieve the top status (or the Alpha dog). This is why packs get energized at the win, and individual members get frantically melancholy at their flubs. Losing our status threatens the innermost part of our being.

How do we avoid failure then? Focus up. You never have to struggle over power if you take small careful steps to insure your success (even in the mundane things you do!). :)