Fear is always going to show up as a character that's shaping that decision. Why finish one project when you can dream about ten more? And we've all been there. I remember this little graph of a lifeof a project that i first read on austin cleon's book stee like an artist. And then you get into it, and on the wy acts is is emotion, and it goes down, down, down till it becomes dark night of the soul. So while you are working on whatever project you started, like you said, you see all these other people doing interesting things, and then your instinct is to either quit or procrastinate. It keeps getting worse
This week I had a delightful conversation with Ashish Goel centered on his new book, Drawing on Courage: Risks Worth Taking and Stands Worth Making. Ashish and I explore ways in which we can summon our inner courage both in times of crisis and in our everyday work lives. Ashish also breaks down some of the ways that fear can deceive and even paralyze us and how we can learn to both cope with fear and deploy courage to overcome it.
Ashish Goel is an entrepreneur, designer, former teaching fellow (at the d.school) and is the former head of design at Zomato (India's larger-scale Yelp!). He currently runs Boca, his sparkling water start-up, and advises some of India's top technology companies on design and product management.
His new book Drawing on Courage: Risks Worth Taking and Stands Worth Making is packed with insights, tools and even comics for anyone who wants to jump this great divide. The book comes via the d.school: The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford.
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