You cannot bet on the good future while flinching.
corner cardthe opponent is the flinch, not the fearas many rounds as it takes
before the bellRead this between rounds
You will be scared; the name over the door is a wish, not an instruction. Fear is fine, fear is information: it tells you where the thing you want is standing. The flinch is the problem: the small refusal, the lowered expectation, the hedge that votes for a diminished world without asking your permission. This card has one job, which is to stop the flinch from voting.
round 1 of as many as it takesWhere are you flinching?
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flinches named: 0flinches that voted: 0moved anyway: 0
the stool is out. name one.
named
nothing named yet. the flinch is currently voting unopposed.
moved anyway
nobody has moved yet. that is fine. sit. water. thirty seconds.
kept on the stoolCorner notes
- Notice the flinch. Name it. Do the smallest true version. Then the next.
- Show up to the conversation you fear. Say the first sentence; the rest is just rounds.
- Build the thing that might fail. It might. That was never the question.
- Believe in people while the evidence is still small. Small is when it counts.
- Say what you want. Pretending it does not matter is the flinch in a good suit.
read aloud if the round went badlyfrom someone who fell on his face, 1996
“One of the things I always tried to coach myself on was not being afraid to fail. When you have something that doesn't work out, a lot of times people's reaction is to get very protective about ever wanting to fall on their face again. I think that's a big mistake, because you never achieve what you want without falling on your face a few times in the process of getting there.”
a founder, on the radio, 1996. fired from his own company; back inside a year.
honest caveat: most swings miss; the card does not promise you the round, only that you did not lose it by flinching.
Some people wait for the fear to pass.
Some don't.
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