In my bodybuilding documentary Raising the Bar, Dave Pulcinella, a few weeks before the big contest, answers the question “What motivates you?” this way...
”What motivates me?? Fear of losing. It CAN NOT happen!” ![](http://i347.photobucket.com/albums/p457/gatomjp/better.jpg)
Many other BB competitors have told me that they identify with that statement. What strikes me as strange is that it mentions “
losing”, a
negative concept that I didn’t think competitors would embrace.
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And then I read in Time magazine that Rachel Maddow, the tough, controversial and very successful MSNBC talk show host admits that, “...her driving force is a
fear of failure”!
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I began to wonder if that was a motivating force for many successful people. Is that true for you or do you find motivation other ways?