Facing the unknown is like standing before a yawning, misty chasm. Your mind races to figure out how to navigate waves of air and nothingness, riddled with potential hazards. In a desperate effort to keep control, you think of all the worst case scenarios and overthink the ways you might avoid them.
If overthinking wears you out, or disillusions you, you might not even step forward, but cling to the edge of your dreams, choosing comfort and safety over incalculable risk.
When you’re at a turning point with your career, as an entrepreneur, or creating a new life in other ways, you have to find a way to get comfortable with the inevitable, unfathomable unknown.
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