How To Address Self Doubt And Fear Of Failure In The GAMSAT

Hey everybody, today’s article is going to address how to overcome self doubt and fear of failure in the GAMSAT and this is a big one.

A lot of people that I speak to and that my team speak to are going through this, they feel it and we’re going to talk about where it comes from. Firstly, How to address it and secondly how to move forward strong and get through the GAMSAT.

Now the team and I speak to a lot of people, a lot of people who are doing the GAMSAT and preparing for it and a lot of them are experiencing this in one way or another.

Experiencing this intense fear of failing, or this fear of self doubt about whether they can actually do it and sometimes it can present itself in different ways so I want to go through some of these ways because they might be related to you.

If you’re experiencing any of these things because it’s often a reflection of underlying doubt which we’re going to address.

So I’ve got them written down, as there is a couple of them that I want to address in today’s article.

Firstly, the way self doubt and fear, often presents is that people will say that ‘I want to really give it a try this year, it’s just going to be a bit of a trial…I’m just going to see how I go this year and you know what, we’ll see what happens’ and the only reason they do that, is because they’re not confident that they can actually pass.

So that’s one of the presentations and the other one is when people say I’m going to do it in March and then I’ll sit September if I don’t get a good result. So they’re already planning multiple GAMSAT exams, because they don’t believe they can do it the first time.

Secondly, they’ve probably heard horror stories from people’s experience with the GAMSAT, and then that adds to your self-doubt that they can’t do it well the first time and this self doubt won’t just go away after you’ve sat the exam once or twice. It will stick with you and show up in different was unless you address it.

So how do you address your own self doubt?

Well, not to leave you hanging here, but it comes down to your preparation. If you haven’t prepared properly then your self doubt creeps in.

If you have prepared and developed the skills, then you shoud feel confident in yourself to SMASH the GAMSAT.

Want help to combat your self doubt or fear or failure? Chat to the team – we love to hear from you.