Hang with the heroes. Well, you know that I believe you become your conversations. Because listening to an audiobook or reading a book is nothing more than having a conversation with the author. You do become the people you surround yourself with. What I’m encouraging you to become fearless is to read the books of people who have transcended adversity.
I mean, it might be a Nelson Mandela. It might be an Elon Musk. It might be a Martin Luther King Jr. It might be someone in your neighborhood who overcame adversity and you decide to have a conversation over coffee with them.
I mean, a lot of times the media will ask me, “Well, Robin, your books work for people who had
great backgrounds, people who have a lot of money, people who had the lucky breaks.” That’s just not true. If you look at the people who become iconic in business and in whatever the field might be, most of the time, those are people who actually came from nothing. Or they had a lot of adversity, but the adversity allowed them to get to know their talents, the adversity developed their strength, the adversity allowed them to become better thinkers, and they actually used failure to develop greater levels of freedom.
One of the best ways to do that is to read the books or listen to the audiobooks or to spend time with people who’ve overcome adversity, who have been frightened and they’ve transcended it to higher levels of confidence and bravery.