A friend of mine said, you can either have control or growth. I wrote down control the growth of my note book cause when i feel ot o control in the midst of growth, it's easy for me to go, i'm failing. A broken sound track ruins a lot of new things. The result should be bigger. And another one that helped it fail was, the result should be faster. Like whenever you start something new, there's this great sense of like, it's going to be so complicated, i'll never figure it all out. There're so many moving pieces,. So that i think really, you know, froze me up at first. But for me
Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. He's an INC Magazine Top 100 Leadership speaker and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences and companies around the world.
His latest book is Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking. In this conversation he talks about identifying overthinking, calling it what it really is (fear), and offering a simple plan to turn it from a super problem into a superpower.
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