Acting like emotions don't exist is a poor strategy

Fear doesn’t mean you’re weak: it means you’re sane. Unpleasant emotions do not dictate your actions.

So many high-achieving people get trapped into obsessing about the external world and neglecting their internal world. When you’ve been suppressing things for so long, you can’t just decide to stop all at once. Learning to listen to yourself takes a long time. I used to think that I always had to justify everything to myself—that I needed to be com