There is a huge fear underneath every complaint: If I took the Big Leap into my Zone of Genius, I might fail. What if I really opened up to my true genius and found that my genius wasn’t good enough? Better to keep the genie in the bottle and coast along in the Zone of […]
Topic: fear
You don’t lack the “right stuff”
You should never wait to pursue a dream or add value out of fear that you lack the “right stuff.” High Performance happens because of what you deliberately think and do on a routine basis in order to excel and serve at higher levels.
We Fear What we Don’t Understand
The thing is, we tend to fear what we don’t understand. If we don’t understand something, we can’t dispel it. If your backlog — the same of our personal goals and expectations — is unknown, and if as humans we tend to fear the unknown, then we risk fearing our own success.
On Avoiding Negative Experiences
Now here’s a problem: Our society today, through the wonders of consumer culture and hey-look-at-my-life-is-cooler-than-yours social media, has bred a whole generation of people who believe that having these negative experiences — anxiety, fear, guilt, etc. — is totally not okay.