Taking Action Before You’re Ready is a Superpower — And Why You Already Have It
Since we were kids, we’ve been conditioned with a very wrong mindset.
It’s a widespread belief that we must feel ready before taking on a new or challenging task when this is simply not true. Being “ready” is a state of high confidence that only culminates due to repeated trial and error.
When you first learn to drive a car, operating a stick shift on a busy road is daunting. You feel you could never do it…until you do it. And the moment you take action, you realize it was not as difficult as you made it out in your head. And the more you practice, the more you reach a state of higher confidence, that is, you become ready.
You need to learn to take action before you’re ready. That is the only way to ever be ready. Making it a conscious habit is difficult but the best thing is, just like the example of learning to drive a car, you’ve already used this superpower before without even realizing it.
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