Following-up on documenting one’s mistakes.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden found a entry in Peter Flaschner’s blog about overcoming paralysis by giving yourself permission to make mistakes.
Your brainstem really does equate missing an important deadline with danger. And when it detects danger, it changes your behavior. Run! Hide! …
I’ve found the best way to side-step the run away instinct is to allow myself to make mistakes. … Knowing that my brainstem wants to run away from danger, I need to reassure it that there is no real danger present.
