How to Be Awesome at Your Job 267: Managing Self-Doubt to Tackle Bigger Challenges with Tara Mohr
Feb 27, 2018
Tara Mohr, a leadership and well-being coach and author of the acclaimed book *Playing Big*, delves into the dynamics of self-doubt and fear. She explains how our inner critic links to primal safety instincts and offers practical tools to face it. Tara shares the distinction between two types of fear—pachad, a misleading anticipatory fear, and yirah, a sacred awe of greatness. By consulting our inner mentor, she encourages listeners to be loyal to their dreams and take bold actions toward their aspirations.
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Loyalty To Dreams Over Fears
- Playing big means being more loyal to your dreams than your fears.
- It's a personal judgment about what challenge will expand you, not a public metric.
The Inner Critic Is A Safety Instinct
- Our safety instinct misapplies to emotional risks, producing the inner critic.
- That instinct is adaptive but creates believable narratives that mislead us about capability.
Experience Doesn't Eliminate Doubt
- Confidence doesn't reliably increase with experience because new edges create new doubts.
- Expect self-doubt to reappear whenever you step into unfamiliar territory.
