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Scott Nicoll
The ALWAYS DO Podcast with me, Scott Nicoll, ventures into my life and the journey of the struggle - from a lost, stuck, overthinking drinker who took zero action to finding health, happiness and all the answers in always doing. (And wealth soon to come). Ramblings about all things a beginning entrepreneur might face (I'm just getting started) and how to stop thinking, just start and always do.
It's everything I've learned along the way: mindset, self-love, healing, health, fitness, eating right, daily habits, reading (lots of reading), productivity hacks...and to niche down. Well, maybe.
- Leave your phone behind
- Have a THINKING STRATEGY
- Bring pen and paper
- Walk where it isn’t busy (nature)
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Well...not much else to say other than I'M BACK! I'm back Stateside AND I'm back to making content, and I couldn't be more excited about the future.
Micro-losses are hurting you way more than you realize.
Each time you don’t do what you say you are going to do, it is a vote for the person you don’t want to become.
So I was reading this book, “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting,” and it said this: All you have to do is get really excited about what you want and “that jazzed, stoked, turned on, happy, high-vibration you feel when you think about having it will eventually magnetize your want right smack into your lap. That’s all it takes: good feelings.”
And that...made me upset...
Social media definitely has its downsides, so be careful who you listen to, especially with food and nutrition.
- What is choice?
- It is the conscious decision to do or not do something.
- Most people are unconscious.
- So is being unhealthy a choice? Yes and No.
- So many people are unconscious and when they become conscious they have to fight against decades of hardwired programming. AND THAT IS SO HARD.
No one cares whether or not you show up and do what you say you are going to do. This is the biggest problem people have: they unconsciously outsource themselves to their situation, their excuses, or to other people.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Becket
I’ve been thinking that the idea of “fail faster” might be harmful because it tells your brain that it is trying to fail, but I then realized that as cliche as it sounds, there really is not such thing as failure. Only perception of an event or situation.
“One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.” - Eckhart Tolle
Seriously, this is all you need to do to create habits, make progress, and change your life forever. It's so simple.
By forcing yourself to embrace the stress of cold exposure as a meaningful self-directed challenge (i.e., stressor), you exert what is called ‘top-down control’ over deeper brain centers that regulate reflexive states. This top-down control process involves your prefrontal cortex – an area of your brain involved in planning and suppressing impulsivity. That ‘top-down’ control is the basis of what people refer to when they talk about “resilience and grit.” Importantly, it is a skill that carries over to situations outside of the deliberate cold environment, allowing you to cope better and maintain a calm, clear mind when confronted with real-world stressors. In other words, deliberate cold exposure is great training for the mind.
How are Sprints different from just dividing a goal into phases? Unlike phases, which are not ends in themselves, Sprints are independent, self-contained projects—thus the outcome is, let’s hope, a source of satisfaction, information, and motivation to keep going (or, as happened with my stop-motion animation project, a helpful cue to let this particular goal go).
Sometimes you need to walk away from something you are working on to gain a new perspective.
“Men are born soft and supple;dead, they are stiff and hard.Plants are born tender and pliant;dead, they are brittle and dry.Thus whoever is stiff and inflexibleis a disciple of death.Whoever is soft and yieldingis a disciple of life.The hard and stiff will be broken.The soft and supple will prevail.—LAO TZU”
- Some days just suck.
- What can you do?
- Take a nap
- Move your body
- Get outside
- Stop what you are doing
- Connect with people
- Change your location
- Dance
When asked "What's the biggest mistake we make in life?" The Buddha replied, "The biggest mistake is you think you have time."
- #1 Overthinking is an Addiction
- #2 We Like Dopamine
- #3 Overthinkers Are Still Deciding. Please Hold, We Will Be With You Shortly
- #4 The Shame is Real
- #5 The Overthinking Cycle
- How to Stop Overthinking
- What you are good at: simply, you are good enough to make meaningful progress, ability for mastery, the “Stretch Zone”.
- What the world needs: 1) Work that helps others, and/or 2) It solves people’s problems, and/or 3) give people their time back: this is purpose and meaning.
- What you can be paid for: You can get paid what you believe is fair. Research suggests that this is $75,000 for household income and $45,000 if you are single. Money matters, but not as much as we think.
- What you love: that includes Flow or the “Stretch Zone”, engagement in your work, signature strengths, fits your personal life (ie. work hours, flexibility, remote, work relationships, culture, etc.), autonomy - you feel you have control over what you do and your contribution
- Get good at something that helps others, solves problems and leaves the world better than you found it. Do what contributes to the world.
- The Combination: It is right in front of you but you just haven’t tried enough things yet to expose it. You don’t find anything. You create it from within by being vulnerable enough to try things that will bring it out from being hidden.
- The G.I. Joe Fallacy: The mistaken idea that “knowing” is enough to change your behavior
- 50% of our happiness can be attributed to Genetic set points; 10% to “life circumstance”; 40% from thoughts and actions
- “Sometimes, the greatest changes aren’t forced on us at all. Sometimes, we leave our ordinary worlds behind in search of more because we are have grown unsatisfied with what we know. The mind wanders from the confines of regular thinking, drifting far beyond reality’s accepted rules. This is a self-initiated kind of stress. These people struggle to stay small enough for ordinary worlds to contain them. Growth is an exciting challenge. Curiosity calls them to do something greater – to become something more. The present moment is plagued by the awareness that there is more to see. There are still undiscovered ways to exist.”
- "I wonder how people spend their whole lives never questioning what lies just a short plane ride away. That is a life I could never fathom for myself: to ignore the nagging curiosity about what else is out there waiting to be known.” - Gregory Diehl
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it is to be young.” Albus Dumbledore
- There is no existence without darkness. That is life’s guarantee.
- Big-T trauma
- It is so easy to see little-t trauma and simply think that it is just the way things are: bullying or getting bullied at school, parents yelling at each other often, parents yelling at a child often and excessively, teasing and sarcasm, expecting perfection, not accepting a child for who they are, emotionally distant and unavailable parents, parents that are more friends than parents, divorce, hitting children, using excessive fear and threats with children, and the list goes on.
- Adversity is good. Little-t, not so good.
- The point is this: little-t trauma is a constant in life, for all of us. All humans all of the time and at any age. And everyone’s will look and feel different.
- As adults, we deal with it. Most of us do it in unhealthy ways, like drinking, drugs, promiscuity, gossip, binge watching shows, social media, any distraction that feels good, anger, people-pleasing, working jobs we hate. And some in healthy ways, like exercise, meaningful connection, passion projects, new and meaningful experiences, journaling, walking, hiking, therapy.
- But children, they adapt.
- If you’ve experienced little-t in your life, which you absolutely have, you need to look back on it. Meet it. Face it. Sit with it. Talk to it. Work through it.
- If I am certain of anything I am certain of this: we are all here sharing this thing we call life, this human experience, and we are way, way more similar in our experiences than we think we are. And like it or not, we need each other.
Seed oils are NOT inflammatory. Where did this fear start?
In fact, seed oils appear to provide substantial benefits. It's saturated fat you'll want to re-examine in your life.
"For heart health, you want to replace saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, especially the long-chain polyunsaturated fats," Angelone says. "These fatty acids have a very positive effect on the cardiovascular system." The two most common polyunsaturated fatty acids in plant oils are the omega-3 fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and the omega-6 fatty acid linoleic acid (LA). Both ALA and LA are essential nutrients, meaning the human body can't make them so they must come from food. More than 50% of the fatty acids in cottonseed, soybean, corn, sunflower, safflower, walnut, grapeseed, and flaxseed oil are polyunsaturated.
LA can be converted in the body to the longer-chain arachidonic acid (ARA), which is a precursor of prostaglandins that promote inflammation, blood clotting, and blood pressure–raising vasoconstriction.1 It would seem reasonable, then, to worry that dietary LA could be bad for cardiovascular health, but that doesn't appear to be the case. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials found no evidence that LA increased inflammatory markers, and a 2011 review reported dietary LA intake wasn't related to tissue levels of ARA.1 "Inflammation isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's crucial for healing," Angelone says. "People think omega-6s are bad and omega-3s are good, but we need both in balance to keep our immune systems running properly. Omega-6 starts the healing process by alerting the immune system to a problem, then omega-3 takes over."
This is not health advice. Talk to your doctor if you make any health changes. Eat foods in moderation people!
“You have the life you’re willing to put up with.” Gary John Bishop
Creating a "Daily Contract" with yourself just might be the boost you need to get things done.
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“Technology isn’t bad. If you know what you want in life, technology can help you get it. But if you don’t know what you want in life, it will be all too easy for technology to shape your aims for you and take control of your life. Especially as technology gets better at understanding humans, you might increasingly find yourself serving it, instead of it serving you. Have you seen those zombies who roam the streets with their faces glued to their smartphones? Do you think they control the technology, or does the technology control them?Should you rely on yourself, then? That sounds great on Sesame Street or in an old-fashioned Disney film, but in real life it doesn’t work so well. Even Disney is coming to realise it. Just like Riley Andersen, most people hardly know themselves, and when they try to ‘listen to themselves’ they easily become prey to external manipulations. The voice we hear inside our heads was never trustworthy, because it always reflected state propaganda, ideological brainwashing and commercial advertisement, not to mention biochemical bugs.
As biotechnology and machine learning improve, it will become easier to manipulate people’s deepest emotions and desires, and it will become more dangerous than ever to just follow your heart. When Coca-Cola, Amazon, Baidu or the government knows how to pull the strings of your heart and press the buttons of your brain, could you still tell the difference between your self and their marketing experts?To succeed in such a daunting task, you will need to work very hard on getting to know your operating system better. To know what you are, and what you want from life. This is, of course, the oldest advice in the book: know thyself.” Yuval Noah Harari. “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.”
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- [ ] I spent my whole life overthinking and that led to indecision and that led to inaction. In that order.
- [ ] You cannot be indecisive with the absence of thought - This is the main lesson I’ve learned from waking up at 5am: If you do not think, you cannot be indecisive and CAN take action.
- [ ] OVERTHINKING CYCLE: start thinking - many good ideas - the world says to focus on one thing, so you try -but you’re stuck in the Paradox of Choice - then you get stuck Overthinking (Paralysis by Analysis) - Inaction - Procrastinate, Unproductive, Lost, Confused - mad at yourself (feel lazy, wasted potential) because your happiness is directly tied to you productivity - take a step back to get clarity - cycle begins again.
- [ ] Solutions = Choose to be happy with little bits of productivity and progress. DON’T THINK.
- [ ] OVERTHINKING-IDENTITY CYCLE: Big Ideas and try to pick just one (CUE: the new thing to learn and think about) - Enter the “Honeymoon” Phase (CRAVING: to learn more or figure out a new skill) - we invest our IDENTITY - get excited and tell people and that releases dopamine - slowly we get bored or have learned enough (RESPONSE: we learn but usually only until satisfied) - feel guilty it’s not our “calling”, lost - next time you avoid going “all-in” to avoid failure (ANTI-REWARD: avoidance keeps us safe from failure) - not going “all-in” become a self-fulfilling prophecy - shame - lose confidence - think our way out - try to find our “calling.
- [ ] Solutions: Stop looking for ONE single calling. Do a whole bunch of things and combine them. Upgrade your skills. Or conformity also works and you can keep searching for that one thing.
- [ ] ADDICTED TO OVERTHINKING CYCLE: think of ideas and imagine how it would be when completed (The BIG Ideas) - this manipulates dopamine even though our brains knows the difference between thinking and action, there is still an effect (and also creates THE ACTION GAP) - we like dopamine - “feels like” we are crushing life and have it all figured out (but only in our heads) - we tell people about our big plans - get more dopamine - “feels like” more progress - we continue to IMAGINE even more = THE ACTION GAP (here we land back in the OVERTHINKING CYCLE)
- [ ] Solutions: Awareness, Do Something, Short 30-day trials, Do it for fun. WOOP Method. VULNERABILITY CYCLE Vulnerability - Share - Help Others - Receive Validation - Feel Good Enough - Repeat
- [ ] THE SHAME CYCLE: Feel not good enough - strive for perfection - hit limiting beliefs - fears around being vulnerable and sharing - feel shame - repeat
“Everything you've ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” - George Addair
“Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do.Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.”― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Maybe it doesn’t mean that there is an actual “thing” or “career” waiting on the other side of fear, but instead it’s YOU on the other side of fear. The real you. The one that is full of confidence, smiling, happy. Maybe that is what is waiting on the other side of what scares you.
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In a 2019 article for Behavioral Economics, Aline Holzwarth, a behavioral scientist, used Newton’s laws of motion to inform three laws of human behavior.²
These three laws are:
- Behavior tends to follow the status quo unless it is acted upon by a decrease in friction or increase in fuel. (Change depends, then, on how much friction or fuel there is.)
- Behavior (B) is a function of the person (P) and their environment (E), or B=f(P,E). (The person matters, but so does the environment.)
- For every decision made, there are tradeoffs and the potential for unintended consequences. (Opportunity cost)
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I heard a someone say that there is a conspiracy to get humans fat and sick. I got so fired up about it that I couldn't sleep. Here I ramble on about it and why it isn't some grand conspiracy, but rather us, the consumer, super replicators, and capitalism.
A rundown of my 5-Day water fast: what it felt like, what to expect after, and why I did it.
(This is not medical advice or a recommendation of any kind. It's just my experience.)
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Here's how you can properly put 2022 to bed and actually turn your focus on the person you need to BE to get sh*t done in 2023.
Seriously, you’re awake 16 hours a day, what the fuck do you do with your time? You’re doing something, obviously. You’re talking about something. There’s some topic or activity or idea that dominates a significant amount of your free time, your conversations, your web browsing, and it dominates them without you consciously pursuing it or looking for it - Mark Manson
Passion begets purpose. And to find passion you simply do shit that fascinates you and that you are curious about. Then you take one of the many possible passions that emerge and point that toward something meaningful and useful in the world - your purpose.That’s it. There is no complicated formula. You don’t need some course with some coach or guru to tell you what you want to do with your life. Guess who you need? Yep, just you.
No one is coming to save you. It’s only you.
- The first 2 weeks is pretty easy. You don’t yet see the size of the mountain and you are excited anyways and have the energy. But you forgot one thing: you don’t have the habit yet. And even worse, whatever mindset you had before when you failed the last 1,000 times is still with you.
- You don’t know yet that in order to change that mindset that has failed you so many times before, you need the mountain, and you need to conquer it.
- The more times you’ve failed in the past, the harder it will be.
- After a few weeks, you will come to the 1st turning point. This is the day that you really, truly don’t want to do anything. This is the most important day.
- This will go on for a few weeks, until you get to what I truly thing is the most important moment: it’s the moment where you decide to stop even thinking about not doing the thing because you already know that you are going to do what’s right so stop wasting your breath.
“You are never going to feel like starting” - Me
Emotions are not a choice. Your behavior is. You cannot choose your emotions. Only your behavior.
Emotions are not your choice. You don’t get to choose when or how you are going to feel in certain situations and at different times.
You get to choose your behavior. So you might ask, “Scott, how do I choose consistent behavior for myself?” And the answer is, you 1) need awareness. You need to watch yourself and feel yourself behaving and doing life. 2) Once you see the emotion and how you are acting you then simply have a choice to make: accept it or change it. That’s it. Those are the only choices you have in any given moment about your behavior and actions.
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If you have followed any of my journey you know that I LOVE reading and that audiobooks have changed my life, so when I found out I could share the gift of Audible with people I jumped. It is my first time sharing something like this and I will continue to do so because of all things I could think to share with everyone out there, it was this: books!
Today's Episode is about health and I have a look at the claims made in The Plant Paradox:
“You are what you eat, and what the things you are eating, ate” - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, M.D., The Plant Paradox
This quote got me fired up!: “Today, everyone “knows” that brown rice is healthier than white rice, yet the four billion people who use rice as their staple grain in Asia have always stripped the hull off brown rice to make it white before they eat it. Stupid? No, very intelligent; the hull has the lectins and these cultures have been removing it for thousands of years. Although I once believed that any white grain was inferior to any brown (whole) grain, I have since changed my stance. Traditionally, the Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian people have not been plagued with obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other conditions that are so common in the United States. I will go so far as to say that if you’re overweight, there’s a good chance that it’s because you’re a believer in the myth of “whole-grain goodness.” Distressingly, the renaissance of whole-grain products has reintroduced WGA and a host of other lectins back into our diet.”
Have you really changed at all?
- The Paradox of Homeostatic Change is that you haven’t really changing because all you are really doing is setting a new normal.
- 150 days of change and somehow it feels like nothing has changed.
- The mentality of truly trusting the process: you have to trust the process because many changes, especially mindset, have no quantifiable aspects. And very shortly after you change, it becomes your new normal. So the question is, have you really even changed if it doesn't feel like it?
What’s on the other side of fear? Nothing - Jamie Foxx
I went mad-scientist in this episode and investigated what is really holding people back. Here is what I came up with:
(Desire) x [(Explicit Knowledge) + (Tacit Knowledge)^(Focus + Time)] = Level of Resistance/Progress
Desire of is a multiplier of your knowledge. And tacit knowledge grows exponentially to (time + focus). This is intense, I know, but bear with me.
For example, you can know how to eat healthy, but if your desire is a 2 out of 10, then good luck changing. And you can have all the desire in the world (a 10 out of 10), but without knowledge you aren't going anywhere, mainly tacit knowledge.
The key to all of this is tacit knowledge - the knowledge you can only get through experience. And that compounds over time, like money in the stock market, based on the time you put in and the focus you give.
You might ask, "Well how do I get over the procrastination caused by lack of tacit knowledge?" The answer would be to do something that you enjoy and that challenges you. Something that solves a problem in the world and helps others. Something that aligns with your values and fills you up. Work on awareness and habits. Once you have awareness that you are procrastinating because you lack tacit knowledge you will be faced with a simple choice: keep procrastinating or not.
The choice is yours. It's always been yours.
“We’re all terrified of being revealed as amateurs, but in fact, today it is the amateur—the enthusiast who pursues her work in the spirit of love (in French, the word means “lover”), regardless of the potential for fame, money, or career—who often has the advantage over the professional. Because they have little to lose, amateurs are willing to try anything and share the results…Amateurs might lack formal training, but they’re all lifelong learners, and they make a point of learning in the open, so that others can learn from their failures and successes. Sometimes, amateurs have more to teach us than experts.” Austin Kleon, Show Your Work
- This has bothered me internally since day one - it is too hard and intimidating to learn from people so far ahead.
- I want…no I NEEDED someone right where I was or just a little bit ahead - and that is who I am here for.
- Relatable is the key word here.
“You’re so lazy” - parents everywhere to their teenagers and people to other people that don't grind
- Manson’s Law of Avoidance
The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid doing it.
That means that the more something threatens to change how you see yourself, how you believe yourself to be, the more you will procrastinate ever getting around to doing it.
- I was addicted to my thoughts - and sadly, I think a lot of people are.
- And I felt a crippling fear of NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO.
- That is what is holding most people back from their dreams: not knowing what or how to do it. SECRET: You can learn anything.
Here is how you create your reality and how your body and mind are interwoven. It is so fascinating to me how the brain works and is a prediction machine. This is a dive into How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
“Simulations are your brain’s guesses of what’s happening in the world. In every waking moment, you’re faced with ambiguous, noisy information from your eyes, ears, nose, and other sensory organs. Your brain uses your past experiences to construct a hypothesis—the simulation—and compares it to the cacophony arriving from your senses. In this manner, simulation lets your brain impose meaning on the noise, selecting what’s relevant and ignoring the rest.”
“People like to say that seeing is believing, but affective realism demonstrates that believing is seeing. The world often takes a backseat to your predictions.”
“The bottom line is this: the human brain is anatomically structured so that no decision or action can be free of interoception and affect, no matter what fiction people tell themselves about how rational they are. Your bodily feeling right now will project forward to influence what you will feel and do in the future. It is an elegantly orchestrated, self-fulfilling prophecy, embodied within the architecture of your brain.
“Scientists have known for some time that knowledge from the past, wired into brain connections, creates simulated experiences of the future, such as imagination. Other scientists focus on how this knowledge creates experiences of the present moment. The Nobel laureate and neuroscientist Gerald M. Edelman called your experiences “the remembered present.” Today, thanks to advances in neuroscience, we can see that Edelman was correct. An instance of a concept, as an entire brain state, is an anticipatory guess about how you should act in the present moment and what your sensations mean.”
Have you ever found yourself thinking "What the hell is journaling and how do I do it? And what am I supposed to write about?"
This episode shed some light on why you should journal (with the science to back it up) and three styles of journaling you can try out today.
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” - Marcus Aurelius
It helps to get those thoughts on paper.
How you are stealing everything from your future self because you don't have this skill.
’Tis not difficult to conquer, once understood. No man willingly permits the thief to rob his bins of grain. Nor does any man willingly permit an enemy to drive away his customers and rob him of his profits.” - The Richest Man in Babylon
Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it - Steven Pressfield
Today we discuss whether or not following what scares you most is a good idea when it comes to finding your passion.
Do our fears show us which direction our dreams lie?
Is there a bigger lesson waiting to be discovered by pursuing that which terrifies us?
- I joined the 5am club and I am 3 days in. To be honest, I had been thinking about it for ages. I have ALWAYS been a night owl. So much so that I carried around that guilt that only night owns can relate to - that deep-seated guilt where you feel like you are lazy and that something must be wrong with you.
- [ ] In his book Why We Sleep Matthew Walker is pretty clear in saying that our sleep habits, or chronotypes, are genetically hard wired. Saying about 30% of us are night owls, 30% are morning people. And the rest are somewhere in the middle.
- I wanted to test this all out…
- So far, I feel amazing. There is something psychological that comes with looking at the clock at 7am and realizing that you’ve already done more than most people will do in an entire day.
- Plus there is a feeling of being productive - time is a sneaky thing. We’ve made it up, so it is easy to manipulate in our heads in that case.
- It isn’t so much about the 5am wake up - it’s more about the type of person that gets up at 5am. Again, this isn’t fact at all, but it is something that I have felt so far.
- I still believe you should follow what feels best for you and the #1 priority is getting enough sleep, without question. But trying something like this has been eye opening to say the least!
Wouldn’t it be nice to know what career you would love before you even start?
- Find your signature strengths to show you what you would love before even starting.
- Signature Strengths as defined by Martin Seligman a University of Penn professor: defines 24 character strengths and the website says, The number of potential character strengths profiles is exponentially greater than the number of people living on our planet. That means you are unique as f*ck.
- The idea is to find your strengths and let those inform what you do - this sounds obvious but I don’t think many people have take the time to evaluate what their strengths really are.
- So what are your signature strengths?
YOU SUCK! And that's good. Here's why.
In a world today were everyone thinks it is so easy to do something, this is a great reminder. YOU SUCK at things that you haven’t tried before. If you can just start here, you can save yourself some pain in the early stages.
We must embrace the fact that WE SUCK at things we have not done yet. That is the starting point to getting over the fear. Many of us believe that we are good at things we have just thought about. By embracing that we are absolute garbage (but that we can learn anything) is the perfect place to start.