fear of failure, damps spirit of success

I recieved this forward from a friend of mine today which spoke about how elephants are tied with a small rope and yet this huge strong animal does not make an attempt escape. Appraently when these animals are very young a same size rope is use to tie them and, at that age, it's enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away and hence do even try to break away ...the article ended saying "Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before"
It's so true that many a times since we are scared of failure we do not even try doing a number of things, or even if we do, muster the courage to do something and end up in a failure we stop trying further.
I feel the culprit is 'Fear' which ingrained into us when we were little children...i shall write on fear in my next blog