A short conversational clip where two speakers (A and B) discuss fear and vulnerability when growing as a teacher and being visible online. Speaker A describes being frightened, delaying online activity due to fear of visibility, and teaching yoga teachers; they argue that the pain of not doing something can become worse than the pain of doing it, using learning to drive as an analogy for gradual exposure to fear.
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Oh, I'm frightened all the time. I'm frightened all the time. Like, I think that because I teach. I was saying I teach yoga teachers. And this is something that we talk.
About all.
The time, which is that at some point, you've just got to realize that.
The fear of, like.
Because it's not right or wrong whether you do the thing or you don't do the thing. Like, you can do it or you can't, but you have to live with whether you've done it or not. And at some point, the pain of not doing the thing gets.
Worse than.
The pain of doing the thing. So I put off doing stuff on the Internet for a really long time because I was so frightened of being visible.
Like, it was just, oh, I really.
Really didn't want to be visible. I didn't want to be.
It opens you.
Up, and then I didn't want to be vulnerable. I remember teaching my first class. I was sick after I taught my first class because I was so frightened. Like, and I just think that you. The analogy that I use with my teachers a lot is it's like learning to drive. Like, I didn't learn to drive until I was in my late 20s. And it was genuinely the most terrifying thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.
Like, I.
Could not understand how people could just get into a car and drive. I was like, how do you go on the freeway? And people would say.
