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How to avoid fear: Cover of I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Which Fears Are Telling the Truth, and Which Ones Are Lying by Diego Segura
I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

How to avoid fear: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

Which Fears Are Telling the Truth, and Which Ones Are Lying.

Are you looking for help with “how to avoid fear”? Then this page is a good place to start. I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Which Fears Are Telling the Truth, and Which Ones Are Lying 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.

How to avoid fear: a passage from the book.

You've been writing that label your whole life without noticing. When your heart races before you ask a supplier for a price, or before you tell your family that you want to start something, you probably call it fear, because that's the word you've always used, and then the word tells you what to do next, which is usually to wait until the feeling passes. What if it never passes?

From chapter 8: Do not calm down

There is a fair objection to all this, and it deserves a straight answer. Surely some people really don't feel fear, and maybe those are the ones who should start businesses?

From chapter 10: Courage does not delete the fear

That is how the book looks at “how to avoid fear”: 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
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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 “how to avoid fear”.

  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

How to avoid fear: where to read it.

Finally, you can get I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Which Fears Are Telling the Truth, and Which Ones Are Lying 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.