Unless you're in a staredown with a spitting cobra or about to foot-cross a highway in Mumbai you probably don't need all the fear you're carrying on you like the latest f*cking hipster tote.
Catch yourself when you slip into auto-pilot "no I can't do this" or "okay fine maybe, but not today" or the ever-popular imagination game of worst-case scenario "but what if..."
STOP! Nooo. WOAH TIGER! What if you CAN? Hush your beak! Disobey your fear!
Ed Catmull, co- founder of Pixar and author of Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. (image source)
“If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it. And...this strategy - trying to avoid failure by out-thinking it - dooms you to fail”
““There’s nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks””
“Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before.”
““There are so many people in this world that don’t have the leverage and the trust and the promise that we’re lucky enough to be born with. We got this head-start, and to use it just to hide acorns feels to me like a cop-out”
"All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance " - Bruce Barton
"What if you CAN ? But what if you actually can. Seriously" - me