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Re: Timid Drivers

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
Many people are afraid of failure. I have talked to a lot of team mates that I have urged to try driving, I got a lot of the "I don't want the pressure" or the "I don't want to mess up" response. Driving a robot is always fun, but for some people, the official competition scares them. It just seems as if we were told from birth to never mess up and be perfect. Sometimes, you just have to let go and just enjoy it.
This is me. I definitely feel intimidated by the thought of all the effort we put into designing a building the bot being made or broken by every little action I could make driving. I guess driving can be fun, but I'm not very good at it anyway. I have sort of unofficially decided to steer clear of driving (ha!).
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