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Quieting the lizard brain
The resistance would like you to curl up in a corner, avoid all threats, take no risks, and hide. It feels safe, after all. The paradox is that the more you hide, the riskier it is. The less commotion you cause, the more likely you are to fail, to be ignored, to expose yourself to failure. We tried to set up an economy where you could hide your big
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What creative people need, Godin believes, “is a quieter lizard brain.”
Scott Belsky • Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
STEPPING INTO THE ARENA (Tiny Experiments Week 4)
There is something unnerving about having many eyes fixated on us, ready to judge our
performance. This fear of public scrutiny can be found in many areas of our lives. Students may
avoid speaking up in class. Others feel the pressure to nail first impressions in social situations.
We conform to trends,
... See moreyou take action despite the fear and survive, it learns a tiny lesson. Over time, action by action, the volume of the negative voices goes down. These might sound like the voices of unsupportive parents, critical teachers, cruel peers, and other frustrated creators you’ve encountered. But those people are not in this room with you right now. What y
... See moreChase Jarvis • Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
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
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