The Brené Brown Advice that Gave Me the Courage as a New Online Writer
Are You Waiting for Permission to Go for It?
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
What do you want to be?
This is a question we begin asking our children early on. Their answers are sometimes rather ambitious — like my friend from preschool who wanted to be a lion.
Some of their dreams aren’t quite so complicated.
When asked on her first day of school, my 3-year-old answered that she wants to be able to take two gummy vitamins at a time when she grows up. I say follow your dreams, baby girl.
The optimism of early childhood is admirable. Adults haven’t yet had time to teach them what proper grown-ups are supposed to do.
Small children haven’t been taught yet that creativity is frivolous.
They don’t yet feel the weight of everyone’s expectations for their futures.
They don’t yet know that what they are supposed to be is limited to a small list of practical options.
By the age of 18, there were a number of limiting beliefs that controlled my choices:
- Work and careers are meant to feed your family, not your soul.
