Book 3: Learning through scars ($3k/month)
by Alex West
It might sound great to blow up and go viral, but I was not ready for it. I got severe anxiety at first. I wanted everything to stop. The likes. The comments. The retweets. Even the emails notifying me that I got a new customer. I was overwhelmed and wanted to go back to normality. Especially after being attacked personally on HackerNews for running a lead generation business as if I was the devil. A few days later though, everything had stopped. I visited HackerNews again. They were attacking some other company that day. "Oh.. I see.. It's someone else's turn today." Their attack towards me was not personal. They don't know me. They don't care about me. And they have forgotten about me already. That thought was liberating. It meant that I could fail miserably, in public, without any fear.