
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual

What brings you joy?
Luvvie Ajayi Jones • Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
What is worth fighting for, even if your arms are too short to box with God?
Luvvie Ajayi Jones • Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
“FEAR: HALF THE BATTLE IS WITH OUR OWN SELF, OUR OWN INSECURITIES, AND OUR OWN BAGGAGE.”
Luvvie Ajayi Jones • Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”
Luvvie Ajayi Jones • Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
What do you want them to say when they’re lowering you into the ground?
Luvvie Ajayi Jones • Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
A Ralph Waldo Emerson quote I love is “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
Luvvie Ajayi Jones • Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
To know thyself is to not take all the praise to head or take all the shaming to heart. To know ourselves is to write our values in cement even if our goals are in sand.
Luvvie Ajayi Jones • Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
A professional troublemaker is someone who critiques the world, the shoddy systems, and the people who refuse to do better.
Luvvie Ajayi Jones • Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
What do you hold dear?