Do you want to achieve freedom in life? 🏄 Do you want to be the richest person in your bloodline? If that’s too much, then do you at least want to add an extra 2k-5k/month to your name as an entrepreneur? What if I tell you that you can achieve all of that…but you have to do only ONE thing. You need to look weird in front of others. 😜😝 You need to be able to accept criticism, mockery, and judgment from others. In other words, you just need to look like the only black sheep in a crowd of white sheep. Would you make that trade? ✉️ If you can achieve all of your dreams just by looking a bit weird, that’s more of a bargain, isn’t it? With this perspective, it doesn’t feel that bad to look weird, does it? Yet most people still get that heavy feeling in their chest when pursuing their dreams. People still don’t feel like doing cold outreach because it makes them feel weird. People still hate the feeling of being rejected on a sales call. So they avoid or delay doing the “cringe work” altogether. But this “cringe work” is what moves the needle. It is what gives you the freedom you want. I have learnt this the hard way… 😞 I used to worship my self-image, thinking I was a “tough dude” Thinking I needed to talk in a certain way, smile all the time, be slow with my movements… And it got me nowhere, and my growth plateaued for such a long time… But now I’ve started to accept feeling stupid while doing the “cringe work”. I’m now ok with appearing like a complete idiot in front of others. And I came to this realisation after I observed children. When you see kids… You see that they’re so free-flowing that they don’t care about anyone else. They’ll ask you dumb questions like: “Why is the sky blue?” ☁️ And once you answer them, they still have 100 more dumb questions to ask. They’re guided by their curiosity, which in turn helps them GROW their knowledge. They’re unstoppable when it comes to growth because they don’t hold themselves back. However, as we grow up, we tend to become our own biggest enemy.