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The Maverick Mindset
Fear is a powerful emotion. It can stop you dead in your tracks;it can keep your entrepreneurial dreams forever shelved. Forcingyourself down the path of most resistance, on the other hand, isthe act of a truly courageous person. Or, to use authors Doug Halland David Wecker's lexicon, mastering one's fear is theattainment of the maverick mindset.
"The Maverick Mindset is the highest order ofcourage," write Hall and Wecker in The Maverick Mindset:Finding the Courage to Journey From Fear to Freedom (Simon& Schuster, $22 cloth). "It's having the courage tolive free from conformity and the grit to stand alone."
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