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This Is Something You Have To Get Good At

Ryan Holiday · 4 Jun 2026

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There are no tricks to pushing through fear: you cannot read or think your way to it, only do the thing, again and again.

Their wordsThere are unfortunately no tricks to cultivating this ability. You can’t read your way to it. You can’t think your way to it. You just gotta do it. You make the pitch. You get up on the stage. You deliver the pre-game speech. You give the toast. And then you do it again and again.

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  1. Our reading

    There are no tricks to pushing through fear: you cannot read or think your way to it, only do the thing, again and again.

    Their wordsThere are unfortunately no tricks to cultivating this ability. You can’t read your way to it. You can’t think your way to it. You just gotta do it. You make the pitch. You get up on the stage. You deliver the pre-game speech. You give the toast. And then you do it again and again.

  2. Our reading

    Getting up in front of people gets less scary the more you do it, because confidence is built by competence.

    Their wordsIt is scary to get up there. But it gets less scary the more you do it. Confidence is built by competence, there’s no way around it.

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