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How to overcome our fears: Cover of Which Fears Are Telling the Truth?: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward by Diego Segura
I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

How to overcome our fears: Which Fears Are Telling the Truth?.

I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

Are you looking for help with “how to overcome our fears”? Then this page is a good place to start. Which Fears Are Telling the Truth?: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward 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 overcome our fears: a passage from the book.

Which of those two worlds do you think your fear still lives in? I ask because I think a lot of us inherited our fear of debt from the first world, from grandparents' stories and old films and warnings over dinner, while the law around us quietly moved into the second one. You may be afraid of a prison that closed before your grandparents were born.

From chapter 5: The worst case is written in a law you have never read

We had no business taking on commercial refrigeration. But my co-founder's pitch, delivered in a drafty hallway outside a symposium at the MIT Media Lab, was hypnotic. She was a brilliant engineer, and ideas poured out of her. Our venture was a hardware and software system that listened to industrial cold-storage machines with acoustic sensors and mapped tiny vibrations to predict when a component was about to fail.

From chapter 6: What happened to the people it happened to

That is how the book looks at “how to overcome our fears”: 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 overcome our fears”.

  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 overcome our fears: where to read it.

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