I told her I look back now and can see that every major step forward in my career has been driven by my anxiety. It leads me. It’s my internal traffic light system that tells me “go” and “stop.” When I feel the anxious choke at my throat, that urghhhh, I know something is not for me. Stop! it screams at me. In this way my relentless anxiety—and my awareness of it—has helped me make big important decisions along the way. I think anxiety pushes us. It exists to do so—it helps us friggin’ fire up. Even when it makes us stall with terror, it eventually makes conditions so unbearable that we
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