Excerpt from a YouTube talk by Dr. Joshua John‑Ram Schacter ("Embracing Fear as Fuel to Innovation"). The speaker frames fear as a useful signal in the innovation process—if a project terrifies you, that may indicate it’s worth pursuing—and responds candidly to an interlocutor about personal fear of stepping outside the box. The clip is conversational and candid.
If you're terrified of this process, if you have questions as to whether you're gonna make it through and it really scares you, then it's worth doing. And that's the way that we approach this project.
Tell us why you wasn't scared to step outside the box.
That'd be a lot. That's a damn lie.
No, it's terrifying. Look, when you want to innovate, when you want to change the way people think about any subject, there's a lot of fear. One of my mentors kind of said, a great plan, a great project is one that you're scared of, that makes your palms sweat. One that you're terrified of, you lose sleep over. That's how you know you're on to something amazing. And he's like, look, if you're terrified of this process, if you have questions as to whether you're gonna make it through and it really scares you, then it's worth doing, and that's the way that we approach this.
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