冒险一试:如何抓住机会?

将批判的声音人格化（然后限制他们）

In Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott shares an ingenious method for coping with the critical voices in your mind (the ones that say "I can't do it" and "You're ridiculous to even try.") Your critical teachers (and the not-so supportive friends you may have had) are all in your head when you're trying to seize an opportunity. Instead of letting their negativity reign, try to:

"...isolate one of the voices and imagine [it] as a mouse. Pick it up by the tail and drop it into a mason jar. Then isolate another voice...And so on...Then put the lid on, and watch all these mouse people, clawing at the glass, jabbering away..."

This exercise helps you to mute the volume on the voices that don't serve you. Now that you've got the critics taken care of...

4. Put up a fight and believe. (Let your second self have a turn on the dance floor.)

信任并且奋起战斗（让你的第二自我展露出天赋）

If you want to influence a senator's vote, win a gold medal or guest post on an amazing blog, you cannot allow doubts and fears to drag you down. You have to let something else guide you.

What is that something else? Well, that's you, actually. As Juan Ramon Jimenez writes: I am not I. / I am this one / walking beside me whom I do not see... / who will remain standing when I die.

In other words, your scared, fearful self isn't the only ticket in town. You have another self, one that relishes intensity and newness. You have a self that's ready to seize the opportunity you desire.

As Martha Beck, Ph.D, writes in Steering by Starlight, "Scholars...who study human happiness concur that we are most centered and blissful 'in the zone' when we're intensely focused on something that is almost too hard or too scary to do..."

True, you do have a self that wants to flee from a challenge. Yet you also have a self that wants to meet that same challenge head-on.

Get to know that second self. Think back to a time when you felt it, a time when you felt as though you were flowing beyond your natural abilities. Befriend it as you would a new acquaintance.

Feel the way it makes your fingers tingle, the way it guides your feet to unexpected thresholds. Chances are, that second self will be the one turning the knob when opportunity knocks.