overcoming fear of failure.

how to be scared but still do the thing

🍥 Life

Hi friends! How are you doing?? I’m in HK right now! 🇭🇰

SO I realize I do this thing where I do random things to avoid doing the thing that I actually care about because I'm too scared of failure. For example👇

I care the most about:

🎥 Making videos

📖 Self studying

🤝 Helping people with their careers

🤖 Tech & AI

What I’ve been doing instead:

🖥️ A cool but unrelated startup

✅ Saying yes to random things

I guess you can call it productive procrastination lol. Not saying that the things I’m doing now are bad or not valuable - they are! They just aren’t the things that I want to be doing the most. I guess I’m scared that if I try my best and still fail I would be devastated. So instead I do other things to still feel productive, but it won’t hurt as much if I fail. If that makes any sense…🥹

Anyways clearly this isn’t working out so it’s time to make a change. I’ll explain my plan a bit further down.

Btw follow me on IG? 🤗🤗

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🌻 Interesting Things (I think)

A range of things that I find interesting! 👇

🤖 Tech & AI

OpenAI: GPT-4o came out and we built an app to test it out. You can try it out directly here and/or check out the code and run it yourself here.

TL;DR GPT-4o is actually quite good!

Google: Plans to release a bunch of AI products, including hardware. Condensed video here.

Microsoft: Has new PCs integrated with Copilot. Ad here and full keynote here. tbh I’m probably gonna stick to mac. 😅

🖊️ Learning

Keystone Habit: A habit that has a positive rippling effect throughout the rest of my life. 🌊🌊

My keystone habit is definitely self studying. When I consistently self study, I not only learn useful new things, but also start transforming the rest of my life. I suddenly get motivated to work out, eat better, and have better impulse control.

I’m getting back on track and this is my new study plan:

🎥 Script writing & production: I’ve committed to learning how to make better videos. (4 hrs/wk)

💼 Business: I’ve committed to creating a new memberships program. It’s for people who want to learn AI skills and build products, but may not have the time and/or financial means to do the full Lonely Octopus program. (2 hrs/wk)

P.S. I go into a lot more detail in this video if you’re curious.

What’s your keystone habit? Comment below!

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