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330. How to Stop Playing It Safe (and Why It's Making You Miserable)

I'm at an international adult figure skating competition this week, and it got me thinking about why we stop doing hard things — and what happens to us when we do.

This episode is about doing the hard thing. Not the hard things that life hands you without asking — the sickness, the loss, the layoff, the breakup. I'm talking about the hard things you choose. The ones where your brain says "maybe I could do that" and then immediately talks you out of it.

I tell you about getting a score of 11 when the skater before me got a 22, sitting in the kiss and cry trying to figure out what just…

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