What Would You Tell Your Younger Self?
Be courageous and trust your instincts – they are as good as anybody else’s.
Over time and with maturity, we learn to support our instincts with experiences, prestige, titles, and more.
However, I believe that I would have achieved more, faster, had I been willing to trust my instincts and be more courageous at a younger age and not looking for validation from others – particularly older people in the workplace who saw me as less significant.
It wasn’t until I had the strength of will to speak up and fight for the ideas that I believed were the right ones directionally that I began to understand how powerful and accurate my ideas truly were.
The Validation-Game almost never accelerates the achievement of your goals. Erica McCurdy, MCC
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