you will feel embarrassing and uncomfortable
Embarassment is an underexplored emotion. Go out there and make a fool of yourself. - Austin Butler’s friend lol
how to live with the discomfort of learning (instead of running from it)
open.substack.combut learning demands a temporary surrender of pride. you can’t learn while protecting your image at the same time. you have to allow yourself to sound clumsy, to look unpolished, to admit you’re not there yet. it feels like loss in the moment — loss of dignity, loss of certainty — but it’s really the ground clearing itself so that something else... See more