Linchpin

Successful people learn from failure. They learned that the tactics they used didn't work or that the person they used them on didn't respond. You become a winner because you're good at losing.

Overcoming the Lizard Brain and Embracing Failure
It's the lizard brain that tells you you're not qualified. It's the lizard that tells you not to apply to a great school because you don't deserve to get in. 

Looking busy is not the same as fighting the resistance. Being productive at someone else's task list is not the same as making your own m

Creating an environment for the lizard brain to relax.
The challenge is to create an environment where the lizard snoozes. You can't beat it. You must seduce it. The lizard brain is here to keep you alive. The rest of your brain merely makes you a happy, successful, connected member of society.

When put on alert, the lizard brain wins every time, unl

Your lizard brain is working overtime to get you to shut up, sit down, and do your (day) job. It will invent stories, illnesses, emergencies, and distractions in order to keep the genius bottled up.

It is afraid of what will happen to you if the ideas get out, if your gifts are received, if the magic happens.

The daemon is the source of great ideas, groundbreaking insights, generosity, love, connection and kindness.

The resistance spends all its time insulating the world from our daemon. The resistance lives inside the lizard brain.

The lizard brain is the source of your resistance.
The lizard brain only wants to be safe. The lizard brain will fight if it has to, but would rather run away. The lizard brain cares what everyone else thinks.

The lizard brain is the reason you're afraid. The reason you don't do all the art you can, the reason you don't ship when you can.