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Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career
Acceptance Over Resistance: Embrace Your Emotions
Accepting emotions in stressful situations, instead of trying to suppress them, can be more effective for managing anxiety and improving performance. This counterintuitive approach recognizes that attempting to control or deny feelings often leads to heightened stress. Acknowledging and embracing these feelings, much like advising a child to accept frightening thoughts rather than avoiding them, allows individuals to process and ultimately diminish their fear. The phrase 'what you resist will persist' encapsulates the idea that avoidance only reinforces anxiety rather than alleviating it.
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