Your great ideas
Look around: everything you see was once just an idea that someone envisioned and turned into a reality.
You, too, have your own ideas and they're within you for a reason: they want you to make them a reality. In order to do that, you have to overcome the greatest barrier there is: your own fear.
Everything you see was created by someone who struggled with this. They weren't endowed with some sort of super-special armor that prevented them from feeling afraid. They felt it, but they found a way to work with and to overcome their fear, to quiet the voice in the head that said "You'll fail," or "This is a bad idea," or "You will never figure this out." That means that you can learn how to do this, too.
Here's a reframe that will help, courtesy of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. He wrote: “One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”
The next time that you are feeling doubt about your own ideas, remind yourself: that only means that you are filled with imagination and understanding.
What Russell is really saying, in my opinion, is that the two go together. You can't have wonderful ideas without the worrying thoughts, because both come from your spectacular imagination. When you choose to quiet your worries and bring your ideas to the world, you are choosing to let your imagination lead the way. That is how great ideas become real.
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