Ben Horowitz: Quit being a coward and do the hard thing
History’s heroes know something the rest of us don’t: fear isn’t the enemy; inaction is. What we have to learn to do is lean into the things that hold us back, to move through the pain and push forward.
Jeff Goins • Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into Your Comfortable Life
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Ben Horowitz • 12 highlights
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The fear you feel is a sign. If courage is never required in your life, you’re living a boring life. Put yourself in a position that demands you leap.
Ryan Holiday • Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)
Fear tells us what we have to do.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
Not money.
Not intelligence.
Not access.
Conviction.
I’ve met a lot of people who are very intelligent and have an awesome (in the literal sense) arsenal of skills and advantages at their disposal.
But that doesn’t make them dangerous, because they usually don’t know where to go with all of this. (In fact,