Carlos Garcia @TrueProgressLab
Build your inner fortress. Get calm under pressure | attorney, Army JAG officer, judo man, ultra runner go.trueprogresslab.com/registration Join my next masterclass → Joined July 2021-
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Tonight: write down one moment where fear of judgment steered you. In the next meeting where you feel it—say the true thing instead.
The same question applied to the rest of the day catches what the brain calls "strategy" or "timing." When FOPO runs decisions and goes unexamined, the room keeps getting a performed version of you—not the actual leader. That gap compounds.
The Stoics ended it with a harder question. Marcus Aurelius called it the evening review. One question: where did fear or someone else's opinion steer me today? Not to punish. To see. I started doing this after judo—where the mat doesn't let you rationalize what happened.
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Identity gets built before the test. You decide you're someone who speaks up, then you collect proof, one uncomfortable rep at a time. Here's your rep for today. Name one opportunity you passed on in the last 30 days. Write down what you'd have said if no one was watching.
Yesterday I wrote about why some people don't freeze. Today, the one rep that builds it. Composure gets built in small reps, long before the high-stakes moment. At our dinner table, we ask the kids one question: what did you fail at today?
Almost every time. Focus on today's action; that's the only variable you actually hold.
Your nervous system treats hope and fear the same — both fire your stress response because both are about a future you can't control. Heart racing, overthinking, tension — that's your body treating an imaginary outcome like it's real. The suffering happens before the event.
count backward, then move—before your brain generates a reason not to. Confidence runs on evidence. Action generates it. Name one opportunity you passed on in the last 30 days. Write down what you would have said if no one was watching. That's the rep.
Every missed moment is permanent. The window closes, someone else fills it, and your trajectory gets shaped by the accumulation of those silences. Mel Robbins was broke and stuck when she built the 5-Second Rule:
I used to think I needed to feel ready before I acted. The perfect moment never came. I'd wait to feel less nervous. Wait for the right conditions. "Fear of failure greater than desire to win, leading to avoidance of opportunities"—that pattern has a real cost.
My man Kamal just about almost got me in the end. Love training with him.
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I coached a deputy general counsel who over-predicted his nerves on every high-stakes rep. 60 days of structured exposure later, he walked into a level-7 leadership forum and told me he cared a lot less about what other people thought now.
Some people walk into some tough rooms and don't flinch. The promotion pitch. The board question. The moment everyone turns to look. Here's what they built before they ever got there. Epictetus taught it as knowing what's yours to control and what isn't.
You know the answer. You stay quiet anyway — because the FOPO calculation runs faster than the answer does. The belief that you're always being judged keeps you tracking the room instead of running it. That's a nervous system response, and it doesn't respond to self-talk.
Early in my career, I thought strong teams stayed smooth. No friction. No awkward pauses. No one getting uncomfortable. The real conversation always happened after. In the hallway. In a DM. On the drive home. If you're an introvert, that pattern costs you.
Every time you "get organized" before starting, your brain just bought itself ten more minutes away from discomfort. "Getting organized" before hard work is a coping loop.
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