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The willingness to critique rather than create is a sign of cowardice rather than courage. Show me someone willing to risk and I'll show you someone willing to grow.

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Remaining cool rarely closes the gap because you never step out of your comfort zone, which means no growth. Nice one, Ash!

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Hello. Thank you for this article. Well written and lifted my spirits as I am in a cringe stage or as I like to call it- reinventing myself as 58! Challenging and joyful at the same time.

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Ash, that line—“But keep going, one day, they’ll claim they always believed in you”—hit hard. It’s so true for anyone who’s ever put themselves out there. People would claim they believed in you as if their doubts or mockery never happened. It’s surreal.

Meanwhile, you remember every single moment of their doubt vividly. But moments like those make the experience worthwhile, don’t they?

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This might be my favourite visual you’ve ever shared Ash — genuinely.

We all feel it or have felt it in the past.

Putting yourself out there isn’t cool, but no one ever got successful without opening themselves up to criticism.

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Thank you! This was very encouraging and inspiring to read. And something I'd kind of been thinking about for awhile. Having that bravery to just start and doing something 'badly'...or just being willing to 'practice' things and let others see your learning progress is hard. But it's also inspirational, cause then someone else may have the courage to start, whereas if they just saw the end result instead of the journey they may not think its possible.

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If you can't look back on your past work and not sense just a little cringe, have you even grown?

Putting yourself out there, when you know you're not perfect takes guts.

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What a beautiful reminder to be yourself and do things that matter to you as an individual :)

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Superb Ash! Just loved it, E'one these days want to be cool, but they don't understand that cool doesn't lead them to the next step. Probably few things come with age!

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"cringe" is an excuse to be a coward

well done. great post.

edit: and GREAT reminder.

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