M2M Day 105: Complimenting strangers
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For February, my goal is to land a backflip.
Since my backflip lessons are only twice per week, I need to find ways to “progress” even on days that I’m not going to AcroSports.
During my last session, my coach, Elijah, suggested that I spend some time addressing my fear (which is the main thing currently holding me back from landing a backflip). In particular, Elijah encouraged me to find non-backflip-related ways to overcome fear throughout my week.
The idea is that if I can get my brain more comfortable with the uncomfortable, hopefully, it also becomes more comfortable with the idea of backflipping.
So, today, I gave myself a mini-challenge: On my walk home from the train, I challenged myself to stop ten people on the street and give each one of them a compliment.
While I’m not that shy, this was still quite fear-inducing. And yet, after the first compliment, the rest were really easy.
I’m not convinced that this is going to help me with my backflipping, but at least it was a fun way to spend the last leg of my commute.
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