Fear of mistakes: But I'm a Coward.
Are you looking for help with “fear of mistakes”? Then this page is a good place to start. But I'm a Coward: Eleven Fears About Starting a Business, Checked Against the Evidence 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.
Fear of mistakes: a passage from the book.
Three is plenty. If you can't find three, one will do. The point isn't a perfect sample. The point is that one of your fears finally gets checked against what really happened.
From chapter 4: Nobody checked your fear's record
If you've made them, you now hold something no book about fear can give you: evidence about your own nerves, in your own voice. But there's a cost no recording will ever capture, the price of every month you spend not pitching at all. So how much has all that careful waiting cost you so far, in money and in hours?
From chapter 8: Do not calm down
That is how the book looks at “fear of mistakes”: 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.
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 “fear of mistakes”.
- The safer road
- Afraid people see different odds
- Unknown is not unlikely
- Nobody checked your fear's record
- The worst case is written in a law you have never read
- What happened to the people it happened to
- When the coward is right
- Do not calm down
- The price of the safe choice
- Courage does not delete the fear
- Beginning while afraid
Fear of mistakes: where to read it.
Finally, you can get But I'm a Coward: Eleven Fears About Starting a Business, Checked Against the Evidence 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.
Other titles of this book.
In addition, each title below highlights a different idea from the same book.
- Am I a Coward?: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth
- Am I a Coward?: I Want to Start a Business, and Eleven Fears Are in the Way
- Which Fears Are Telling the Truth?: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward
- Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth: Eleven Fears About Starting a Business, Taken One at a Time
- Starting a Business While Afraid: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward. Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth.
- Starting a Business While Afraid: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth
- Beginning While Afraid: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward
- Beginning While Afraid: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth
- When the Coward Is Right: I Want to Start a Business, and Eleven Fears to Check First
- When the Coward Is Right: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth