You can’t learn a language without mispronouncing things in front of people. Same goes for learning a new life.
RESILIENCE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Nobody acquires a new language quietly and correctly in private. You get it by saying it wrong in front of people who can hear you, repeatedly, and the mistakes are not a detour around the learning but the mechanism of it. The same applies to any life you have not lived before.
Accept a fixed amount of public clumsiness this week rather than trying to get it right first. Be the one who asks the obvious question or uses the wrong word. Fluency has no route that avoids that stage.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What are you avoiding because you would look clumsy?
MORE IN COURAGE & RISK
- Being the new kid at twenty-two feels just as awkward as it did at eight. Bring the same courage you had then.
- Your best years aren’t something that happened in high school. Don’t let a yearbook cap your future.
- The new job, the new city, the new role will feel too big at first. Clothes you grow into always do.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.