You don't get opportunities by staying home. Show up to conferences, speak, network, take visible roles. Yes, you might embarrass yourself. But resentment won't get you anywhere.
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If you want some of these opportunities to flow your direction, you've got to be in the stream where these opportunities are happening. I'm seeing a lot of people that I know, like, and trust and respect online, and they're always like out there doing something, and they're getting all these opportunities. They're meeting friends at conferences, they're speaking at conferences, they're getting new jobs, they're doing all of this stuff. And the realization: I could either watch these other people do this stuff and be frustrated that it's not happening for me, or I could like introspect and see, well, are they doing something differently? If you want Some of these opportunities to flow your direction, you've got to be in the stream where these opportunities are happening. You can't just sit at home, be bitter, when other people are willing to take the risk to be embarrassed.