Shane Parrish

There's a million different solutions for this.

And I think we beat ourselves up about this.

And once that little voice takes hold, it paralyzes us.

And I think that we can just change that.

All you have to do is say not today.

I can fail tomorrow, but I'm not going to fail today.

Right.

Uh,

When I think about confidence, I think about confidence very differently than other people.

I think about confidence as next step confidence, not all the way to the ultimate outcome confidence.

Most people think the other way.

And I'll give you an example.

When I left the three-letter agency and I decided that I was going to pursue a different path.

You know, my mom showed up at my house in tears, crying, begging me to keep my job, begging me not to do this, begging me not to throw away this amazing career that I had built over the course of 15 years.

And towards the end of that conversation, she's like, what are you going to do to make a living?

And I said, I don't know.

I have no idea.

But I have the confidence that I'll get up tomorrow and I'll get one step closer to it and I'll figure it out.

And that is what I call next step confidence.

You don't need the confidence to get to the end.