How to Overcome Your Fear of Trying New Things
9 min readNov 15, 2019
When I was a teenager, I was shy, fearful, and self-conscious like many kids at that age are. I hated drawing attention to myself. I just wanted to blend in. I hated trying anything new.
Trying something new meant I would be unsure of myself (even more unsure of myself than I already was). It meant that I might fail. I might look stupid. I might embarrass myself. I might need to ask…
