To develop this way of thinking, a form of the Stoic practice of negative visualization can help.

Making life changes requires overcoming the discomfort of not knowing what will happen. Facing uncertainty, we make long mental lists of things that might go wrong and use these as the reasons why we must stay on our current path. Learning to have a healthy distrust of this impulse and knowing that even if things go wrong, we might discover things

Though it may be tough at first, over time you will no longer feel as strong an urge to repress them or push them away. Instead of shutting down or freezing up, you can lean into your fears and let them guide you toward what you really want. You will come to know all of yourself better, and thus you will come to gain more trust and confidence in al