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Afraid to start my own business: Cover of Am I a Coward?: I Want to Start a Business, and Eleven Fears Are in the Way by Diego Segura
I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

Afraid to start my own business: Am I a Coward?.

I Want to Start a Business, and Eleven Fears Are in the Way.

Are you looking for help with “afraid to start my own business”? Then this page is a good place to start. Am I a Coward?: I Want to Start a Business, and Eleven Fears Are in the Way is one of the titles of I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward, a book by Diego Segura. First, read a short passage from it. After that, try the exercise below, and finally choose where to read or listen.

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Afraid to start my own business: a passage from the book.

Now look at the page: your own number, their two, the average and your angry number. The gap between your number and theirs isn't all feeling, because they don't know everything you know about your plan. But some of it is, and now it's written down where you can see it. If your angry number sits a long way from your first one, that distance is worth noticing too, because it tells you how easily your gut number moves when your mood does.

From chapter 2: Afraid people see different odds

And you will want to pick yours. Yaniv and Kleinberger reported in 2000 that people give their own opinion more weight than advice, partly because they can see all of their own reasons and can't see the adviser's. Your reasons feel like evidence. Theirs feel like an opinion.

From chapter 2: Afraid people see different odds

That is how the book looks at “afraid to start my own business”: one idea at a time, with a step you can take right away. Of course, this is only one idea from the book. So, if this passage speaks to you, the full chapter goes further, and it ends with an exercise you can do the same evening.

Check your fear in one minute.

Pick the fear that stops you, then answer three quick questions. The result tells you whether this fear is giving you facts or just noise.

The fear that stops me
50%
If it happened, could you recover within two years?
Could you test it this month without spending much?

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What else is inside I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

In short, the book has 11 chapters, and each one ends with a practical exercise. Therefore, you can read it in order, or you can go straight to the part about “afraid to start my own business”.

  1. The safer road
  2. Afraid people see different odds
  3. Unknown is not unlikely
  4. Nobody checked your fear's record
  5. The worst case is written in a law you have never read
  6. What happened to the people it happened to
  7. When the coward is right
  8. Do not calm down
  9. The price of the safe choice
  10. Courage does not delete the fear
  11. Beginning while afraid

Afraid to start my own business: where to read it.

Finally, you can get Am I a Coward?: I Want to Start a Business, and Eleven Fears Are in the Way in the stores below. Because every title of this book shares the same text, you can simply pick the one you like best. Also, the book is available in 19 languages.

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Other titles of this book.

In addition, each title below highlights a different idea from the same book.

See all 45 titles. Go to the book page.