The Gift of Introversion

7. Strengthen your backbone
and, therefore, your confidence
in small steps.
Get in the habit of asking yourself where
you stand on various questions. When you
have firm opinions or a strong sense of
right or wrong on a given question, savor
the feeling. It doesn’t matter what kind
of question — it can be how to organize
the dishwasher.
The point is to get used to the feeling
of having a center and operating from it.
Then, produce more consequential
ideas from this same place. You’ll still
have doubts, of course: “Does it make
sense? Will people agree ?” That’s normal.
But you need to have confidence about
the underlying purpose of your undertaking.
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