Brendon Burchard argues that nervousness and anxiety can sharpen your performance rather than sabotage it. He encourages embracing discomfort as a sign you're growing, and using fear as fuel to chase what matters instead of letting it stop you.
The thing is, you want to be nervous, because that anxiety that most people call it, I call it performance edge. When you know you're stretching yourself, when you genuinely know you're stretching yourself, you feel the nerves in your stomach, and your mind is like, oh, can I really do this? And most people don't experience that a lot because they feel it the first few times. They call it fear, they call it anxiety, and then they stop stretching ever again. You know, they hit their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s. They're so scary of losing their reputation, so scared of going broke, so scared of other people's judgment, so scared. What are the neighbors going to think? So scared the kids will, you know, judge them. So scared. Like there's all this worry. They'll be, you know, made fun of, ostracized, abandoned, canceled. And so we have an epidemic of people who have real heart and soul, who have a dream, and they aren't even trying because it's uncomfortable.
