Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

Opportunities are in scary places

23 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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A short motivational segment (YouTube video) arguing that opportunities and the largest personal rewards lie in places that provoke fear and discomfort. The speaker describes intentionally practicing in areas of personal weakness to reduce discomfort, and cites Joseph Campbell’s idea that "the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek" as a framing for pursuing fearful challenges.

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And I realized every human has places where they excel and other places where they're terrified. You know, like Andy was talking about earlier, terror and tremble. That was a really interesting thing. And so what I realized is, like, okay, how do I practice in all kinds of different places so I feel less uncomfortable, but knowing that no matter what I'm doing, if I'm pursuing something, there's always going to be a little bit of uncomfortableness doing or a lot of uncomfortableness. And the opportunities are in places where most people are afraid to go. And your own success in life is going to be those places you're afraid to go, where the biggest treasure lies. Going back to the Joseph Campbell thing that you know, the cave you heard. After all, it's a treasure that you seek. Like you've already accomplished something amazing. What's the next value.