unmasking fear & failure

“Sometimes fear does not subside and you must do it afraid.”

– Elisabeth Elliot

...[E]veryone has at least one fear that rules their life and limits their freedom... When you find it difficult to admit your fears, ask yourself a different question: Are you free? This question helped me uncover my fears one by one ... At a fundamental level, many of us fear finding out who we really are and what about ourselves we need to fix.

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“Your aesthetics get better as you make mistakes.”

It can be difficult to appreciate how much simply avoiding the standard ways of failing dramatically increases the odds of success.

"When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life."