Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
You are not your resume, you are your work.
I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.
It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.
A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.