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The Atlantic ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. For years, I was haunted by a fear of failure. I spent my early adulthood as a professional French hornist, playing in chamber-music ensembles and orchestras. Classical music is a perilous business, relying on absolute precision. Playing the French horn, prone as it is to missing notes, is a virtual high-wire act in every concert. I could go from hero to goat within a few mistakes during a solo. I lived in dread, and it made my life and work misery. Fear of failure is not just a problem for Fren...

A revision of this piece was published in 2007 among the pages of The Vagrant Literary Quarterly under the title "Prodigy, or the Perils of Earnest Praise." For this the author was woefully uncompensated. YOU: (You commence with an open-ended query) ME: Because it wasn’t in me, really. YOU: (Leaning forward, inquisitive assertion.) ME: No, that’s not it at all. The thing is, see, that musicians – real musicians, not some kid who takes piano lessons with the lady down the street for a few years – musicians, have this thing, have a sense for mode, and harmony, and pitch. I did not have ...

Is important, such as fatherhood. neither of us fear failure. i happen to think a lot of it has to do with our dad. i know jeb doesn't fear success. in other words, i know he knows he could do the job. after all i saw his brother do it. you know, he is a lot taller than i am. [ laughter ] >> i don't know. hopefully we have a chance to compare or you will have a chance to compare once he gets to be president. >> it's fun to listen to what your mother has to say about it. >> if we can't find more than two or three families to run for high office, that's silly. i would hope that someone else woul...

Is important, such as fatherhood. neither of us fear failure. i happen to think a lot of it has to do with our dad. i know jeb doesn't fear success. in other words, i know he knows he could do the job. after all i saw his brother do it. you know, he is a lot taller than i am. [ laughter ] >> i don't know. hopefully we have a chance to compare or you will have a chance to compare once he gets to be president. >> it's fun to listen to what your mother has to say about it. >> if we can't find more than two or three families to run for high office, that's silly. i would hope that someone else woul...

Their health care may be threatened. >> i want to point out the national republican party is basically sitting out the texas fight. maybe that's a good sign. thank you both very much for being here. coming up -- as immigration reform moves to the house, the focus shifts to speaker john boehner. but the question isn't just what will boehner do. it also might be does his caucus fear failure? we'll discuss the state of play in the house when congressman lewis gutierrez joins us just ahead. go! go olive garden. go 2 for $25. go father, daughter. go mother, son. start with unlimited salad and bre...