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Release Your Inner Badass: How to Get Over Self-Doubt, Change Your Mindset, and Design the Life You Want
Because Playing Small is No Longer an Option!!
I binge-watched “The Walking Dead” and finished listening to Jen Sincero’s book “You Are a Badass” back to back on Audible. I was fascinated by how common people—teachers, pizza delivery drivers, even a former sheriff—turned into strong survivors in a world overrun by zombies.
The web series starts off quietly. In the first episodes, they first hesitated, questioned their capacity, and clung to their old way of life. As Rick Grimes memorably remarked, though, “We do what we need to do, and then we get to live.” It dawned on me then — this TV Show on Netflix is about becoming the person who defies circumstances, not only about surviving the zombie. Then it starts to get intense as the seasons progress. A ton of zombie killing keeps going on. At some point, you’ll see that Zombies aren’t scary anymore, they are dead! Humans start to seem to appear more gruesome, selfish and dangerous than the Zombies!
Then came the book I was reading, which I could draw parallels to. Killing the zombie-like version of yourself caught in dread, self-doubt, and procrastination is exactly what You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero is about. Sincero advises breaking free…
