I felt this fight against fear before each role change. At first, I'm excited. Then, the days go by and the change becomes a reality, and I'm scared shitless. Even last time, when I fought for a promotion, knew I was ready, and got it - the fear still came. How will I manage? Maybe I should wait a couple of months and take it slower?
Every such passing-the-gate experience reduces the fear, and makes it easier to ignore those thoughts and just dive in.
Fear is a normal and healthy response to keep us safe. But it can also be firing off when we are stepping into a new challenging but exciting opportunity that will grow us.
It’s important to recognize this, process through it and move through the fear into the new opportunity.
For me fear almost held me back from taking the leap into becoming a tech lead. It held me back for a while from becoming a fullstack engineer because I was afraid of “becoming a coder bro.”
I felt this fight against fear before each role change. At first, I'm excited. Then, the days go by and the change becomes a reality, and I'm scared shitless. Even last time, when I fought for a promotion, knew I was ready, and got it - the fear still came. How will I manage? Maybe I should wait a couple of months and take it slower?
Every such passing-the-gate experience reduces the fear, and makes it easier to ignore those thoughts and just dive in.
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah. I definitely hear that loud and clear. Thanks so much for sharing your experience.
being brave does not mean the absence of fear
means acknowledging it and acting against it :)
Fear is a normal and healthy response to keep us safe. But it can also be firing off when we are stepping into a new challenging but exciting opportunity that will grow us.
It’s important to recognize this, process through it and move through the fear into the new opportunity.
For me fear almost held me back from taking the leap into becoming a tech lead. It held me back for a while from becoming a fullstack engineer because I was afraid of “becoming a coder bro.”
Great write up on this topic, Ryan!