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Get Numb Before You Get Good
Now apply this to your brain. You may get very used to sharing new skills with your close friends but then try to share them with your family and freak out. This doesn’t mean the skills were garbage. It just means you’re not used to the new situation yet.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame. And this fear is not an irrational one.
Paul Graham • Early Work
surrender to the cringe
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now t... See more
Take a moment to consider why you’ve heeded the call. What’s stopped you from doing the damn thing? A fear of being cringe? A fear of not being good enough?
It's all going to flicker out at some point with everything else.
When you first start out, life will be exactly how it was before you started doing the thing except now t... See more