Natalie Fisher argues that overwhelm comes from lacking personal capacity in visibility, interaction, or belief. True failure only happens when you quit. She advocates building an identity of relentless perseverance: stay in the game, learn, have fun, keep calm and belief until success arrives.
We are required to take these actions. And when it seems like a lot to us, it's because we haven't built up the capacity, right? So we are missing capacity in somewhere. So we either don't have the capacity to be seen by that many people, or we don't have the capacity to interact with as many people as we need to yet, or we don't have the capacity to believe that all of our actions are going to pay off because we ultimately decide that. I, my favorite quote is, you don't fail unless you give up. Like when you give up, that's when you fail. And so all these things tie back to who you are, your identity. So if you are somebody who is in it until you get it, it takes what it takes. You're willing to do all the things and you're willing to have fun along the way, learn along the way, be calm, be in the belief, be in that expectant anticipatory energy. Like that is what it's going to take. And most people are just not wired to do that.
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