"A good friend – a no-nonsense university scientist who’s convinced that every self-help book, workshop or website in existence is weak-minded poppycock – recently took up skydiving. But perhaps we don’t know each other as well as I thought, because he apparently believed I might say yes when he invited me to join him in jumping out of planes for no reason. **It would be scary, he acknowledged, but then anything really worth doing is scary. Quite so. It doesn’t follow, however, that everything scary is worth doing; running blindfold across a busy stretch of motorway would be terrifying, but personal growth would be unlikely.** "‘**Do one thing every day that scares you**,’ [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] said, wisely, **but she surely wasn’t advocating a life spent sticking your fingers in electrical sockets**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[fear]], [[courage]], [[growth-mindset]], [[life-advice]], [[juicy-sentences]] **Source** -- [[20241114100017 - B - Help!]]