Tom Bilyeu

When you're growing in a business, it's very painful.

When you're stagnating in a business and you're plateaued and you don't know what to do, it's very painful.

When you're declining and you also don't know what to do, it's very painful.

And so that means that all conditions of reality are painful.

And so if pain is a prerequisite for reality, then it means it's just a signal that we are alive.

And so in thinking about that, rather than pain as a problem, it is a signal that I'm breathing and then becomes irrelevant.

In the beginning, you're like, I feel bad.

And then you think that that should weigh on the decision of whether you do the thing that you're supposed to do.

And then you start realizing that you can do the thing, even though you don't feel good about it and you start hypertrophying it.

But I think the ultimate version of the hypertrophy, when the muscle becomes a tendon or it just becomes fused is when you don't even consider how you feel.

It's just not a thought.

You just keep, you just do it.

Champions just interpret anxiety as excitement.

And if you're excited to go up, then you're like, I'm amped versus I'm stressed.

But it feels the same.

The way you frame it totally changes how you feel when you're stepping on stage.

But my two cents of if you are feeling lots of anxiety, it means you need to practice more.

That's just my two cents.

And that comes for everything, whether it's to have a meeting or give a presentation or write an email or do a book.

Like if you feel nervous before you release it, then you probably didn't work on it enough.