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Find Your FOMU Score
The Fear of Messing Up shows up differently for everyone. These 9 questions will show you where your FOMU hits hardest before, during, and after a mistake.
Rate yourself on a scale of 1 (Never) to 5 (Always) based on the last 30 days.
Before I send an important message or share something I've worked on, I review or rework it more times than is necessary.
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Before I send an important message or share something I've worked on, I review or rework it more times than is necessary.
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I hold back on sharing an idea, project, or opinion until conditions feel certain enough, even when I know the waiting might cost me an opportunity.
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I hold back on sharing an idea, project, or opinion until conditions feel certain enough, even when I know the waiting might cost me an opportunity.
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The mental energy I spend anticipating how something will go exceeds the time I spend doing the actual task.
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The mental energy I spend anticipating how something will go exceeds the time I spend doing the actual task.
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When I make a mistake, I struggle to separate what happened from what it says about me as a person.
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When I make a mistake, I struggle to separate what happened from what it says about me as a person.
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I hold myself to a standard I would never apply to someone I care about who made the same mistake.
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I hold myself to a standard I would never apply to someone I care about who made the same mistake.
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The thought of being visibly wrong in front of others, even people I trust, is harder for me than it probably should be.
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The thought of being visibly wrong in front of others, even people I trust, is harder for me than it probably should be.
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After something goes wrong, I spend more time replaying it than the situation deserves.
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After something goes wrong, I spend more time replaying it than the situation deserves.
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Even when something goes well, the satisfaction is brief because I'm back to anticipating what might go wrong next.
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Even when something goes well, the satisfaction is brief because I'm back to anticipating what might go wrong next.
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It takes me longer than I want to recover from a mistake, even when I know intellectually that it wasn't catastrophic.
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It takes me longer than I want to recover from a mistake, even when I know intellectually that it wasn't catastrophic.
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Looking back at last week, how much time would you estimate FOMU cost you? This includes overthinking and over-preparing before a mistake, plus the replaying and self-criticism after. It's okay to estimate.
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Looking back at last week, how much time would you estimate FOMU cost you? This includes overthinking and over-preparing before a mistake, plus the replaying and self-criticism after. It's okay to estimate.
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Under 2 hours
B
2–5 hours
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5–10 hours
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10–20 hours
E
20+ hours
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