For my Reading Stack
Exploring the concept of 'genius,' contrasting the healthy self-doubt required for growth with the historical idea of 'having a genius.'
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Right. And I want to ask you something, because I remember reading, I can't remember who it was who said, after, you know, having their first big success, they felt really unhappy and they felt really worried that like, has the biggest success I've ever had in my life happened? Like, and who am I now? I think that that kind of doubt is healthy. It
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Cringe tolerance: The crucial ability for creators to overcome embarrassment and release imperfect work to achieve success.
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Cringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
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