Start small and go (grow!) at your own pace. There is no need to maintain a facade of expertise. Don’t hide your uncertainty, your experiments, and your acts of becoming. Put them out there for others to learn from and weigh in on. Instead of flexing your expertise, flex your curiosity. And if you find yourself in need of a final dose of courage,

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The reason you might be having trouble with your practice in the long run—if you were capable of building a practice in the short run—is nearly always because you are afraid. The fear, the resistance, is very insidious. It doesn’t leave a lot of fingerprints, but the person who manages to make a movie short that blows everyone away but can’t raise

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If you are “fastidious”— first, celebrate your conscientious nature! It’s what makes you an excellent student and a highly-skilled and trustworthy coach. Your medicine is: you must loosen up, take more risks, take action not to get it right but to get over yourself, and always be in the middle of your own garbage challenge. You must learn how to

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