BETTER YOU

Do You Sabotage Your Potential To Excel at Something New?

Unstick your beginner’s dilemma with six simple tips

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

Doing something for the first time can be as equally exciting as terrifying. There is a lot of uncertainty involved. Uncertainty and fear can hold you back, or it can drive you. Why is this endemic to us humans?

I think it’s because we feel like we can master the something novel with ease at a point in time when we don’t know much about it. Not being able to instantly feel good about something — missing that dopamine hit — may feel foreign.

We all heard this before:

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

So, is it even worth to beginning something new?

If you want to keep tapping into the new potential, keep reading and find out how the following six tips will help you to NOT get stuck in a beginner’s dilemma:

1. Treat your ideas like your most precious asset
2. Prevail over “Everything already exists.”
3. Keep your research time reasonable
4. Involve others to get farther