You (still) do not have to be good.
Mary Oliver said it first, but I'll keep saying it.
The Sunday Dreads Vol. 48
What would you do if you could not fail?
Whenever I’m faced with a meaningless question like that, I’m unable to respond in any meaningful way. I think it’s meant to inspire, to get us to think big, to force us on to the next natural quasi-inspirational adage “everything you want is on the other side of fear.”1
A better adage, if we must deal in adages (the de facto currency of the internet), is this:
What would you do if failing was okay?
If there were no real consequences, if nobody made you feel foolish, if it was okay with the people around you that you were still a work in progress.