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Self doubt: Cover of I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth by Diego Segura
I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

Self doubt: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth.

Are you looking for help with “self doubt”? Then this page is a good place to start. I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: 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.

Self doubt: a passage from the book.

Doing that checking, one fear at a time, is what this book does. Some of what you find will be a relief. Some of it will not, because some fears are right, and I'll show you the evidence for those too. By the end you won't have lost your fear. You'll know which parts of it are telling you the truth, and which parts are only loud.

From the introduction

Hold all of this carefully. Fan and White, and Armour and Cumming, compare places, and places differ in countless ways besides their laws. Dobbie and Song studied people who had already filed, not founders deciding whether to start. And Berkowitz and White showed the same kind laws can make credit harder to get. So what does the research give you? A pattern, not a promise about you. I wouldn't start a business because a study found that people in forgiving places start more of them, and I don't want you to. What matters is that the shape of the worst case is something societies choose, argue about and change, which means it is something you can look up.

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

That is how the book looks at “self doubt”: 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 “self doubt”.

  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

Self doubt: where to read it.

Finally, you can get I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: 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.