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Never afraid of failure: Cover of Beginning While Afraid: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth by Diego Segura
I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

Never afraid of failure: Beginning While Afraid.

Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth.

Are you looking for help with “never afraid of failure”? Then this page is a good place to start. Beginning While Afraid: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth 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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Never afraid of failure: a passage from the book.

She also saw the danger in beginning. Once you act, you cannot fully control where your action goes, and you cannot take it back. For those two problems she offered two human remedies. Against the unpredictability, we can make promises, which set some limits on an uncertain future. Against the irreversibility, we can forgive, which frees people from being trapped by what they have done.

From chapter 11: Beginning while afraid

What survives the translation is smaller, and I think it's enough. In Arendt's account, beginning something is one of the most ordinary human capacities there is. And her two remedies fit a frightened founder surprisingly well. Who could you make a promise to about your first small step, so that the future has at least one fixed point in it? And could you write, today, one sentence forgiving yourself in advance if that step goes wrong?

From chapter 11: Beginning while afraid

That is how the book looks at “never afraid of failure”: 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 “never afraid of failure”.

  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

Never afraid of failure: where to read it.

Finally, you can get Beginning While Afraid: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth 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.