3-2-1: On feeling foolish, the importance of dreams, and respecting others

"One of the great mistakes in life is suffering for years because you didn't want to feel foolish for five minutes.

• You don't want to apologize, so you let a relationship deteriorate.


• You're scared of the sting of rejection, so you don't ask for what you want.


• You fear people will say your idea is dumb, so you never start the business.

Polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on dealing with critics:

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"Against criticism we can neither protect nor defend ourselves; we must act in despite of it, and gradually it resigns itself to this."