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When friends can't move forward on shared dreams they've committed to publicly

My best friend and I have been planning to start a business together for three years and we keep finding reasons to delay it and I think we're both scared but neither of us wants to admit it because we've told everyone this is happening. We're stuck between the fear of failing together and the fear of disappointing each other by backing out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are trapped between their mutual fear of failure and their fear of letting each other down, unable to name what's really holding them back.

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