I wanted to talk about this topic today because it’s a common barrier to doing what you want with your life: other people. It doesn’t matter how certain you are about what you want and where you want to go, other people always have the potential to derail or deflate your plans; and when you’re not certain, not confident, then they can stop you from even considering it. As with so much, this is a difficult topic to generalise, depending as it does on our own relationships with others, our personalities, our tics in relating and how we’ve been socialised. But my hope with this episode is to draw attention to this barrier, suggest a few tools, so that you may feel slightly more equipped when you come up against it.
What I talk about in this episode:
Explaining what you do to real-life acquaintances
The conflicting intensity and anonymity of people on the internet
Having resilience and self-sourcing and stubbornness to be doing what you’re doing in spite of what unsupportive friends and family might say
For links and resources discussed in the show, see the full show notes.
