I find doing things for the first time to be relatively easy, for someone who has pretty severe anxiety. I get the sense that most anxoius people have trouble starting things. I don’t; I can be quite impulsive. Pretty much as soon as a thought enters my brain, I’m thinking, “Okay, well why wouldn’t I do that?” It’s been great (moving to New York, and then to Charlotte, and then to Philly) and questionable in retrospect ($70,000 graduate degree), but mostly it’s just…my brain and how it works.
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