{"id":28932,"date":"2015-03-21T04:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T09:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/?p=28932"},"modified":"2015-03-21T04:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T09:45:51","slug":"secret-part-of-bravery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/secret-part-of-bravery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Part of Bravery People Struggle with Most"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is a guest post from my friend Jon Acuff. He\u2019s a New York Times<\/em> bestselling author who just wrote a new book called Do Over<\/a><\/em>. (I bought a copy for every member of my team!) You can read his blog here<\/a> and follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n

I write about fear a lot. I write about more than just rational fears like when you go to Chipotle and try to order queso and they tell you, \u201cWe don\u2019t have queso.\u201d I write about irrational fears as well.<\/p>\n\n

People often ask me, \u201cWhere do you get all these ideas about fear?\u201d and they are always disappointed with my answer: \u201cI\u2019m afraid of a lot of things. And then I write them down.\u201d<\/p>\n

I wish it was fancier than that, but it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m afraid my blog<\/a> is stupid when I see the cool things other people are doing with their blogs.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m afraid I\u2019m wildly unqualified to give anyone advice on anything.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m afraid to admit I\u2019m a writer.<\/p>\n

In the midst of all that fear, I decided to study bravery for my new book Do Over<\/a><\/em>. I learned a lot in eighteen months. Here are a few things that surprised me:<\/p>\n