Neuro anatomy is responsible for fear. Understanding this has completely changed my life (not a word of hyperbole here).
...About 2 months ago, I invested about 60-80 tangible labor hours into understanding this. Why? Because of setting really 'big' goals that I knew required doing things differently.
I compiled a list of experts in excel, went to youtube for lectures, went to Amazon for books. I have a list if anyone's interested. A few:
Check out these videos and Audios by Dr. Robert Maurer, Dike Drummond, Dr. Glenn Livingston and Dr. BJ Fogg and Neuro scientist turned startup founder Ryan Levesque:
Pass it along! The more fellow entrepreneurs understand that fear is not weakness but a natural neurological reaction to change, the better off we will all be.
In 1 month, I've been more productive than the past 10 months - and it's going to stick too.
(Grew my audience by 30%, found a business partner even though I'd been through a few before, finished another project I had been "thinking" about for 1 year - the list of results from putting the research into action is too numerous to mention).
PS
The Kaizen Way by Dr. Robert Maurer is one of the best, best, best books ever showing how to avoid the procrastination that is created by the brain in reaction to the amygdala's safeguards against change (i.e. fear).
On a second thought, however, this line of thinking overlooked a major problem in real life -- that most of the fear comes from unknown.
By acknowledging that you do not know enough about a problem, the natural next step is to do more research, which causes you to, well, research more and do less.
On the other hand, a lot of successful entrepreneurs just embrace their ignorance and go for it, they end up failing or succeeding much more quickly.
...About 2 months ago, I invested about 60-80 tangible labor hours into understanding this. Why? Because of setting really 'big' goals that I knew required doing things differently.
I compiled a list of experts in excel, went to youtube for lectures, went to Amazon for books. I have a list if anyone's interested. A few: Check out these videos and Audios by Dr. Robert Maurer, Dike Drummond, Dr. Glenn Livingston and Dr. BJ Fogg and Neuro scientist turned startup founder Ryan Levesque:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQurEc7HRt0&list=UUU24alR...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWUDV6xJRPc
http://www.rocketmemory.com/articles/kaizen-mind-trick
http://www.payperclicksearchmarketing.com/obliterate-procras...
http://www.tinyhabits.com
Pass it along! The more fellow entrepreneurs understand that fear is not weakness but a natural neurological reaction to change, the better off we will all be.
In 1 month, I've been more productive than the past 10 months - and it's going to stick too. (Grew my audience by 30%, found a business partner even though I'd been through a few before, finished another project I had been "thinking" about for 1 year - the list of results from putting the research into action is too numerous to mention).
PS The Kaizen Way by Dr. Robert Maurer is one of the best, best, best books ever showing how to avoid the procrastination that is created by the brain in reaction to the amygdala's safeguards against change (i.e. fear).