Curiouser and Curiouser

Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desires. Let the barriers you face — and there will be barriers — be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold. I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try. Start by aiming high…Go home and ask yourself, what would I do if I weren’t afraid? Then do it!

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, in The New Yorker, July 2011