Thwarted again!
By nonsense old tapes in our heads, right?
Today write about a thing that keeps tripping you up. What about it stops you? What happened to build a psychological aversion to it? Who contributed to your feelings about it? What are you doing to move through it anyway? What might you try that you haven’t tried already? Who do you know who is doing that thing already? Dig it. Let’s go.
Here’s one I was thinking of recently: early in my broadcast career, a person in a position of power on paper made a point of telling me in a public and humiliating way that not only was I an idiot, but that I sounded like one, too. Imagine, you’re like a week into doing something and just learning how to both succeed and fail at it and some higher up is like hey yeah you suck at this and clearly aren’t very smart, so you’re on thin ice. And, my dude, he didn’t even say it that nicely; it was far worse. But as I have been building into new spaces recently and rebooting a few things, I’ve been remembering that voice. Not because I thought it was true then or think it is true now, but because, at the time, I didn’t yet know if it was true or not so it sort or stuck with me as a fear I find myself being careful about to the point of sometimes tripping myself up when I ought move forward and be allowed to experiment and learn in public. Anyway, you are no idiot and you don’t suck at this and neither do I so let’s do this.
