“Do it anyway” also means “send it anyway” … you know, the manuscript you’re sure is worse than an engineer’s memoir, the proposal that you are positive will get rejected, the self-introduction to the editor who you are certain doesn’t give a damn about your mission to educate 6 billion people about mental illness.

Send all those things, because, as my hero Helen Keller once wrote, “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

That’s right. Go ahead and dare.

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