Playing Big: For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
“What’s the biggest challenge in your life?”
Tara Mohr • Playing Big: For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
name for her true essence.
Tara Mohr • Playing Big: For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
Nanie or Madame professeur. I was in Italy I think it was professoressa
The human brain is hardwired to be overreactive to potential dangers.
Tara Mohr • Playing Big: For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
Focus on service.
Tara Mohr • Playing Big: For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
The contribution game
Maybe you had a harsh painting teacher and then came to feel afraid of taking a painting class or art courses in general.
Tara Mohr • Playing Big: For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
Oh, I first had a great piano teacher but then a super harsh one. Going to the conservatory for both piano and then singing was disastrous an experience. Both teachers (one of whom I remember nothing of today) gave me some really harsh criticism. To this day, I feel really unsafe and sweat profusely if I play piano in front of someone else, making mistakes when I normally perform totally fine on my own.
There is an unexpected connection between staying right-size and playing big. Playing big often comes from standing within our story, mundane as it may seem to us. Ironically, playing small often shows up in projects that look big and ambitious—as it did for me with the anthology—because in all the bigness, there’s lots of room to hide from persona
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When I write a blog post, and no one comments on it, shares it on social media, or writes to me about it, I could conclude that I wrote a “bad post” and start listening to inner critic tapes that I’m not good at what I do. That would be the old paradigm: thinking the feedback tells me about me. In the new paradigm, I can see that the feedback tells
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“the voice of not-me”—
Tara Mohr • Playing Big: For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
It’s time to retrain our brains: The value we bring doesn’t just come from the information we’ve mastered. It also comes from who we are.
Tara Mohr • Playing Big: For Women Who Want to Speak Up, Stand Out and Lead
“It’s so helpful to have that distinction between life-giving fear/awe and lizard-brain fear. I deeply relate to the quaking sort of energy that comes with inhabiting a larger space. I like renaming it yirah rather than fear—and now I know to follow that thread. Now, I soothe myself when the pachad is up and step on in when it’s yirah.”