Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

Don't let others infect you with fear.

5 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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A short monologue warning that people often transfer their own fears onto others—parents, relatives, or well-intentioned advisors—making fear contagious and potentially destructive, especially for entrepreneurs deciding to start businesses. The speaker urges awareness that some objections come from others' fears rather than the individual’s own judgment.

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In a world where there's tons of people putting their agendas on others, because the fear is not that person's fear, it's that the parents fear. Or it's a well intended threat of saying, I don't know if you should try it for this job or you should try. Like, how many of you starting your businesses had many forces, relatives from otherwise and did everything they could to talk you out of it? Right. So we shift fear. Was that. Right. And then if we decide to go along with it, we listen to it for them. Why? You know, for approval for. I mean, were they genuinely concerned? And oftentimes I don't think anyone would say, of course I was concerned. But sometimes the biggest the fear of the planet is one of the most destructive forces, especially when the fear becomes contagious.