The Science of Self Sabotage

Whitney Virginia Blocker
6 min readOct 10, 2017

Why we ruin the things we want.

Self-sabotaging. You can call it accidentally on purpose shooting yourself in the foot.

The fuel to this fire is fear. Trying to get that promotion you’re afraid you won’t get? Show up five minutes late to work after worrying all night about it. Wanting to lose weight but afraid of more diet failures and never reaching your goals? Eat a pizza the night…

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Whitney Virginia Blocker

freelance writer l English lit major l blogger l poet I student of life Email: whitvmo@gmail.com