The Flinch
Julien Smith
Language: English
Pages: 131
ISBN: B00NLJHGOA
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Julien Smith has delivered a surprise, a confrontation, a book that will push you, scare you and possibly stick with you for years to come.
The idea is simple: your flinch mechanism can save your life. It shortcircuits the conscious mind and allows you to pull back and avoid danger faster than you can even imagine it’s there.
But what if danger is exactly what you need?
What if facing the flinch is the one best way to get what you want?
Here’s a chance to read the book everyone will be talking about, before they do.
What are you afraid of? Here's how to find out.
Read things that are too difficult for you to understand, and then overcome your discomfort by pushing yourself to understand them. 4. Get some scars by working with your hands. Try to understand how things in your world work, like your car, your stereo system, or even your kitchen. Have a garden or a dog to help you stay grounded in the real world. 5. Turn your mobile phone off for a few hours each day. Having nothing to do while you’re waiting for a bus can be boring, but it’s only when
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turn corners or get surprised, so you just keep moving forward, in the same direction, until you die. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Consider this: in your corridor, every flinch is a door you can open with a new scar and lesson behind it, the same way a kid learns by touching the burner. It’s an experiment—an attempt at something new. Not all experiments hurt, but all of them are valuable—and if you don’t open
happen. It’s why the monolithic company gets wiped out by a lean startup—because the big company culture avoids the hard questions. It’s the reason you make the wrong decision, even though you may know what the right one is. Behind every act you’re unable to do, fear of the flinch is there, like a puppet master, steering you off course. Facing the flinch is hard. It means seeing the lies you tell yourself, facing the fear behind them, and handling the pain that your journey demands—all without
you from learning what’s necessary to adapt. So you need to start recognizing your fight-or-flight response. This is the real challenge—what you’ll spend most of your time on—because it is such a strong instinct. Every alternative you develop is highly valuable because it opens your options dramatically. Thankfully, you can train yourself into new patterns, and you’re not the first to do so. New patterns can include learning things that are better adapted to certain situations, and will happen