I'm more afraid of success than failure. Here's my pattern: [describe opportunities avoided, self-sabotage before success, the fear that comes with winning, and what you do to stay small]. Identify what about success scares me: visibility (being seen), responsibility (expectations rising), permanence (can't fail my way out), isolation (leaving people behind), proving I can do it (now I have to keep doing it), or change (my life would be different). Map the fear: exactly what do I imagine happens if I succeed? (Get specific - who do I lose? What's expected? Who am I becoming? What do I have to maintain?). Then dig deeper: is it success I fear or what success would reveal? (That I actually am capable? That I can't blame circumstances anymore? That I'd have no excuse for the next level?). Analyze secondary gains of staying small: sympathy, low expectations, underdog status, safety in limitation, solidarity with other struggling people, or excuse not to try harder. Recognize the beliefs: "Success changes people" (so I'll lose myself?), "successful people are alone at the top" (so I'll be isolated?), "if I succeed once, I have to keep succeeding" (so it's a trap?), or "I don't deserve success" (so it will be taken away?). Identify who I'd be leaving behind: family stuck in the same place? Friends who aren't growing? An identity I've held? A community I belonged to? Decode the real fear: it's not success itself; it's who I'd become, who I'd lose, or what I'd owe. Create the fear confrontation protocol: the success visualization (what actually happens - strip away the catastrophe), the identity expansion (I can succeed and still be me), the relationship reality-check (real people celebrate my success; people who don't aren't my people), the responsibility reframe (success doesn't trap me; it frees me), and the success tolerance building (small wins first to prove I survive them). Include: what I actually fear success would mean about me, who I'm afraid of disappointing by succeeding, and whether I'm okay living small forever to avoid this fear.