Jacob's Brain

The Maker Letter ·

Fear is right

Hey Friend,

For a long time I checked my bank account constantly.

Every Stripe notification. Every failed payment.

I felt them physically.

Like a punch in the chest.

I realized one thing about fear though over time.

Fear has facts.

If you're scared you don't have enough money and you check your bank account...

It shows a number.

A real number.

Indisputable.

It exists.

Fear is not making it up.

And that's what makes it so sticky.

It's not irrational.

It's pointing at real things.

But i've seen many people get trapped saying:

"I'm not going to invest until I make more money."

"I'm not going to put myself out there until I feel ready."

"I'll start when the conditions are better."

As soon as you attach a condition to growth, growth stops.

Because growth doesn't happen with conditions.

It happens with commitment.

The biggest leaps I've ever made happened when I quieted the fear and moved toward the vision anyway.

Not because the facts weren't real.

They were.

But because the vision was bigger than the facts.

Fear will always have data.

The question is what you're going to do with it.

Your biggest fan,
Jacob 'vision beats data' Pegs

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