13222: How Will You Know If You Don’t Give It A Shot?

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so you want to try something new uh
something you’ve never done before
something that might be a little scary
might be a little daunting and so to
limit your
risk you may be making a really big
mistake bear with me we’re going to
discuss it in this episode of the vo
Heroes
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podcast I totally get it you have a
limited amount of time there’s
opportunity costs to choose between one
thing to do and another especially if
it’s new if it’s uh a little scary a
little daunting as I said uh something
you’re unfamiliar with and so you want
to mitigate that risk and you want to
like limit the uh potential for failure
now you know how I feel about failure I
love failure I love what I learn from
failure but let’s take a look at this as
kind of a side angle Mark Manson said
something recently
that really stuck with me he said most
people wait until they are certain
before they act but you will never be
certain of anything until you act is
that certainty ever realistically going
to come without doing anything to find
out it’s really stunning because it’s
all Lo it seems so logical like for look
before you
leap well the inverse of look before you
leap is he who hesitates is lost all
kinds of phrases have you know opposing
uh viewpoints but this is really
interesting um and it and it takes
bravery to just dive in and not worry
about making sure you’re safe this isn’t
like you know getting on a scary ride
that could could really kill you we’re
talking about learning a new skill
trying something new putting together uh
a new character or writing something
special something new and
unknown try to resist the urge follow
Mark’s Mark’s teaching here try to
resist the
urge of
hesitating and looking at every possible
angle before making the
attempt because many times you don’t
know what but you don’t know yet and
only by doing this thing only by
attempting this new and scary and crazy
thing that you’re about to to try will
you find out what you need to adjust the
certainty will come once you try once
you give it a
shot it’s really
counterintuitive but it has served me so
well and Mark put it in such great words
so uh next time you’re about to start
something new move forward faster don’t
worry about making sure everything is
button down and you’ve considered every
possible Avenue of uh success or failure
just do it the amount of things that
you’ll learn from Simply doing it and
then looking at how it turned out
looking at the you know reviewing what
your experience was that’s when you
acquire certainty thank you Mark Manson
for putting into words what I felt and
have practiced for a long time and I
hope that helps you does it put it in
the comments below if you’re like what
are you talking about no I’m not I don’t
have that level of bravery you you do
you Boo and I’ll do me boo uh but tell
me if you think maybe this is something
worth
trying uh go over to vo heroes.com join
in the conversation it’s sane it’s
polite nobody’s you know
trolling anybody I don’t allow that but
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I’m David H Lawrence 17th I thank you so
much for watching and for listening and
I will see you in the next episode of
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