One step at a time.

Albert Bandura, one of the leading psychologists in the world today, has created a pedagogy called Guided Mastery which leads to Self-Efficacy. David Kelley talks about this in his book ‘Creative Confidence’.

The key here is that fear goes away by taking one step at a time. The physical can defeat the psychological. If you are standing at the edge of the mountain and you are alive, then you start overcoming your fear of heights.

Resistance is nothing but fear. Fear of being yourself. Fear of being unique. Of bringing about the change that you seek to bring. So, it starts with writing something. Anything. Just writing and shipping. In a safe environment. With fellows who are on a similar journey.

If you rush too fast to the edge of the mountain, instead of getting over your fear of heights, you might increase it further, or worse, your fear might actually come true. Similarly, if you share your ideas or your work with your friends or family or worse Instagram or LinkedIn, the random commenters hiding behind their own fear will bring you down to their levels pretty quick.

So, we build this muscle slowly but deliberately. The muscle of ‘Creative Confidence’. We learn how to show up especially when we don’t feel like it.

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