Quick Spoon: Values over fear
You don’t need fear to disappear before you act.
In this Quick Spoon, Jill Stoddard shares what it looks like to take action in the presence of fear — guided by your values.
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Transcript
Values Over Fear
Jill: [:Speaker 4: Hi there, and welcome to People Soup, quick Spoon, real conversations about work leadership and being human grounded in behavioral science. With practical ideas you can actually use. I'm Ross Macintosh and here's your quick spoon.
Jill: And if you have a message to share that helps even one person, that's consistent with your professional mission. So you got to get out there and do it. And it was like the combination of those two things that I just saw. That was it. I got in touch with my values, and I decided to, bring all of that fear and insecurity and everything else, and I bought a bright red blouse and leopard print shoes because I wasn't going to hide behind my insecurity about my appearance, and I did the talk in the presence of I'm not ready, I'm terrified, I don't have a message worth sharing, you know, all the zillions of insecure thoughts that, that were there.
I [:Oh, I'm getting choked up just talking about it. And I am so glad I did it. And I think, you know, what people get when they live their values is like, yeah, you have to feel scared because you're doing something that you care about and the stakes feel high. But you also get to feel this incredible sense of vitality and meaining and pride and all sorts of other things that you don't get if you avoid it.
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