More than Just Lines on a Map: Best Practices for U.S Bike Routes
Carpe Diem or How the Fear of Failure Holds Us Back
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7. How did I overcome
• The ’Batman’ principle
• Part of a team
• Once you have prepared, it is beyond you
• "कर्मणये वाधिकारस्ते र्ाां फलेषु कदाचन । र्ाां
कर्मफलहेतुर्भम: र्ाांते सांङगोस््वकर्मणण" ।।
8. How did I overcome
• The ’Batman’ principle
• Part of a team
• Once you have prepared, it is beyond you
• "कर्मणये वाधिकारस्ते र्ाां फलेषु कदाचन । र्ाां
कर्मफलहेतुर्भम: र्ाांते सांङगोस््वकर्मणण" ।।
9. Learnings
• How many opportunities have we lost due to our
fear?
• Actively go outside your comfort zone
• to figure out who you are
• Be more productive
• Dealing with ambiguity
• Easier to push your boundaries in the future
• Improves Self belief
Editor's Notes
1. Failing makes you worry about what other people think about you.
2. Failing makes you worry about your ability to pursue the future you desire.
3. Failing makes you worry that people will lose interest in you.
4. Failing makes you worry about how smart or capable you are.
5. Failing makes you worry about disappointing people whose opinion you value.
6. You tend to tell people beforehand that you don’t expect to succeed in order to lower their expectations.
7. Once you fail at something, you have trouble imagining what you could have done differently to succeed.
8. You often get last-minute headaches, stomach aches, or other physical symptoms that prevent you from completing your preparation.
9. You often get distracted by tasks that prevent you from completing your preparation which, in hindsight, were not as urgent as they seemed at the time.
karmany evadhikaras te: कर्मणये वाधिकारस्ते: you have a right to work only2) ma phalesu kadachana: मां फलेषु कदाचन: but have no right to the fruits thereof3) ma karma-phala-hetur bhur: मां कर्मफलहेतुर्भू: let not the fruits be the motive of doing karmas4) ma te sango ’stv akarmani: मांते संङगोस्त्वकर्मणि: let yourself not be attached to inaction.
How many opportunities have we lost due to our fear?
Actively go outside your comfort zone
to figure out who you are
Be more productive
Dealing with ambiguity
Easier to push your boundaries in the future
Improves Self belief