At tennis on Saturday and soccer on Sunday, I put some of my attention toward watching my reactions to my performance, and I noticed that I am awfully hard on myself when I screw up, to the point that I usually err well on the side of staying safely in my comfort zone rather than even risk making a mistake.
Pushing against the limits of your abilities–and, yes, sometimes screwing up–is the path to improvement. Consequently, my pattern of harsh judgment toward myself keeps me from growing. And it’s not like it even helps that much. I screw up plenty anyway.