A short motivational talk arguing that personal fears (especially about public speaking) can be transformed when passion and curiosity overcome fear. Introduces the coined term “scariocity” (blend of scary and curiosity) and emphasizes that sharing personal stories can help others who are earlier in similar struggles.
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You have wisdom that is absolutely valuable to other people, but you don't see it because it's in your own head. You are one talk away from the most significant professional and personal upgrade that you could possibly ever imagine. I was terrified of public speaking. Why am I still nervous? Why can I still not eat? What's going on? What's going on is a word that my wife invented. It's called scari osity. It's like scary and fearful and curiosity. So it's probably like when you have fear about something that you're curious about. I now own Scariocity.com and I committed to making it a word because I'll tell you something, it's magical. If you are nervous about something, if you are afraid about something, if you are having some difficulty getting your message into the world, all that really has to happen is that your passion begins to get stronger than your fear. You may not know this, and maybe you do, but you have life experience. You went through something, it nearly killed you. It devastated you. You learned some stuff, you've gotten through it. You think of yourself as a survivor, but you think that the story is basically a nothing but. But what you don't realize is there's a person five seats over from you that is going through that same story, but they're at the beginning of it, and your story might just save their life.
