You predict failure before you begin

Come, let us guard a difference the mind keeps erasing. The mind confuses imagining an outcome with knowing it — what you know rests on evidence, what you imagine is a picture of what has not occurred, and the predicting mind presents a vivid failure with the full authority of a fact, so "this will go badly" feels like sober assessment when it is imagination wearing the mask of knowledge; test it plainly, and you do not actually know the outcome, for no one perceives the future, only imagines it. The imagined failure has cost you more than the real ones — the failures you lived through were survivable and passed, but the predicted ones cost you every attempt they prevented, and were never even checked against what would truly have happened, so the fortune-teller has made prophecy after unverified prophecy and you have obeyed them as spotless. And treat the prediction as a feeling, and begin anyway to test it — name it as fortune-telling, not knowledge, then do the one thing that exposes it: begin, for the prediction rules only while untested, and reality is almost always more workable than the rehearsed catastrophe; you need not be sure it will go well, only refuse to obey a forecast that cannot see the future it claims. What has the prediction of failure stopped you from beginning?