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Advice from BIG ballsy achievers to help us sack up

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)

More quotes from the book. Order it. 

"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