The Scariest Rooms You Can Find

So, I had a revelation about impostor syndrome.

Yes, I know, I know, I wrote a book whose entire first third is about impostor syndrome. And I gave a talk that has now 2.6M+ views on TED.com where I also talk about impostor syndrome. How am I still learning more about it?

By accident.

Let me set this up for you with a few context setting questions:

• How much of what we don’t accomplish is because we close ourselves off to even imagining that bigger goal is possible or available to us?
• How many times do we not even put ourselves in the rooms where people are playing at a different, higher level?
• How often do we miss the show entirely, the one that would play for our eyes that every dream exists for all of us?

Here's what I'm asking:

Consciously or subconsciously, if you aren't pushing yourself into rooms that scare the hell out of you, how will you even know what your limitations truly are, right?

If the science behind manifestation is that the act of writing our dreams in swirly font on our vision boards sends signals to our brains to stick our feet in the barely adjacent doors of opportunity as they present themselves to us, flashing by, and super missable otherwise, then it follows that never entering scary rooms means that we don't even allow ourselves to send those big dream signals in the first place.

In other words if your dreams don't scare at least a little bit of the crap out of you, they aren't really dreams at all.

So, The One Thing to do this week is to put yourself in the most outrageous, the most diverse, the most terrifying rooms you can find. It's what I've been doing this year -- and it's part of a big, hairy, scary goal that I am trying to will into reality through sheer brute force -- and I hope you'll join me there too. It's the only way to see what and who we can become.

Limitlessly yours,

LGO