The Silent Saboteur: Don’t Let Fear Kill Momentum After Great Meeting
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The Silent Saboteur: Don’t Let Fear Kill Momentum After Great Meeting
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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The trick isn't to eliminate fear – it's to develop a relationship with it where you can distinguish between fear that's warning you about real dangers and fear that's just playing old tapes of self-doubt.
Matthew Denman • The Altruistic Renegade
“So many advantages come from being willing to look like an idiot in the short term.
You stay silent in an important meeting, afraid to voice critical thoughts and watch the project fail. You don’t write the novel because you’re afraid people might not read it. You don’t admit you were wrong and repeatedly make the same mistake. You don’t ask the pe... See more
You stay silent in an important meeting, afraid to voice critical thoughts and watch the project fail. You don’t write the novel because you’re afraid people might not read it. You don’t admit you were wrong and repeatedly make the same mistake. You don’t ask the pe... See more
you 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
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