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What We Fear Most, Is Often What We Must Do.

Goncalo Hoshi
3 min readJun 22, 2020

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If you take a look back at your life, considering all the ups and downs, all the good and bad moments, all the successes and failures, there is likely a commonality among what have been your most remarkable achievements.

Not to undermine hard work, consistency, proper planning, and all the other daily things required to succeed, but this one is a bit different.

For all the things we are proud of achieving, overall, there was always a voluntary facing of a situation that caused fear within us.

Maybe this was doing your first sales calls, maybe it was gathering the courage to go and talk to the woman you now have by your side, or maybe, it was the decision to go against the grain and do something that truly makes you fulfilled.

Whatever that may be for you, it required facing this fear head-on, for better or worst.

Now, this is not to say that most of your success, in whatever area it may be, will come from a constant battling of fear. Not at all.

Most of the daily things required are quite the opposite of exciting. You’ll get used to them.

However, the decision to start doing them, to risk failure and disappointment, to accept all the bad that may come, that is the daunting part. Not only due to all of these previous…

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Goncalo Hoshi
Goncalo Hoshi

Written by Goncalo Hoshi

Stoicism & Philosophy | Building @pathsofmeaning

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