It’s exactly the advice your mother didn’t give you, unless your mom was a rule-breaker like my mine. Fear means go. This was one of my mom’s favorite principles. She said it when I was petrified to go to school for the first time; she said it when I was going to be on live television and was nervous I had nothing valuable to say. She believed fear was a compass — an indicator of the direction you should go in if you want to become the person you have the potential to be.
To Change the World, Fear Means Go
You can’t move away from what scares you.
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