How to Stop Holding Yourself Back

I see a guy across the mall and I think, that man is really tall. 🎧 LISTEN ON THE GO: • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2s9Jm3W... • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Head above everybody. Then he gets closer and closer, and by the time he reaches me I'm three inches taller than he is. It stuns me every time. Every single time. For about four seconds I get to see myself the way a stranger does, and then it's gone. I built a rhythm a long time ago. Ask the dumb question. Say bad ideas only so nobody has to go first. I'm completely willing to look foolish. Foolish is cheap. What I'm not willing to do is take up the space I actually take up. I hedge the idea before it leaves my mouth. I mark it down so the room can price it at whatever I already decided it was worth. It's not that I'm afraid of being wrong. I'm afraid of being too much. That guy across the mall, unmistakable from a distance. Get close enough and I realize I've been him this whole time. 🎧 No Stage, Just a Chair For people who are changed by the search for truth. Full episode on Apple Podcasts, YouTube and Spotify. Before You Listen: Who assumes they've got all of you because you never go quiet? What do you hold back the second a conversation gets close enough to matter? Where do you mark yourself down before anyone else gets the chance?