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THE ANXIETY OF FAILURE

Watch the video below with youth, then use the questions below to have a mentoring conversation with them.

  1. What do you think it means when the narrator of this story says that Evan Gattis was “crippled by the anxiety of failure”?
  2. What did he tell his father about baseball?
  3. Looking at the father, what emotions do you think he was feeling telling this story?
  4. On his cross-country trip, what was he ultimately seeking?
  5. Why do you think that Evan’s mother told him to “never wish that he could hit like” someone else?
  6. How have you overcome your anxiety of failure?
DONE