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Quiz: Do You Fear Success?

It's strange to think that fear of succeeding could be much of an issue or do much damage. It is and does. Yet the people who suffer most acutely from a fear of success are usually not even aware they have it.

The following quiz, adapted from a questionnaire developed at Boston College (and published in The Success-Fearing Personality, by Donnah Canavan, Katherine Garner, and Peter Gumpert), isn't foolproof, but it should give you a pretty good idea of whether you may be your own worst enemy:

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1. I generally feel guilty about my own happiness if a friend tells me that (s)he's depressed.
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