YOU CAN PROBABLY DO IT

or How To Muster Courage Using the Dumbness of Others

The bar is low.

The bar is very low.

That thing you want to do but think you can’t?

You probably can.

You might not be the best at it, but you can probably do it.

Just look around.
Talk to people.
Most of them are very nice.
I might even say that almost all of them are nice but some may be struggling with this or that which makes them seem temporarily not nice.

But very few - and I can’t stress this enough - very, very few are geniuses.

Pick anything you want to do and I can guarantee that you can find someone dumber than you who can do it.

They might be great at it, but they’re also dumber than you.
In some way or another.

So… that thing you want to do?
You can probably do that thing.

Before you know it, you’ll probably be doing it.

Will you be the best at doing it?
I don’t know.

The worst that will happen is that you’ll find out you can’t do it.
That’s fine. Knowing is good and freeing.

The second worst thing that will happen is that you’ll be the dumber person that somebody else uses as a reason to do it too.

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(Pictured: Author -lathered in sun screen- melting under punishing Winnipeg sun after seeing someone else probably dumber than him doing it. Photo: Paul McNulty)