Podbit · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Anxiety and excitement are both high-arousal states. The racing heart and sweaty palms your body produces before a scary moment aren't always warning signs — sometimes they're your body preparing you to expand.
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At 6:25 · chapter starts 6:12
One of Jay's most counterintuitive points in the episode is about the nature of the body's signals before a scary act. We wait to feel calm before acting, he says, because we assume the racing heart and butterflies mean we are unsafe. But anxiety and excitement are physiologically identical — both high-arousal states produced by the same nervous system [1] — Jay Shetty "Anxiety and excitement are both high-arousal states. The racing heart and sweaty palms your body produces before a scary moment aren't alwa…" 06:25 . The butterflies before asking someone on a date and the butterflies before jumping out of a plane feel the same in your body. Your nervous system, Jay explains, genuinely cannot always distinguish between danger and growth. This reframe has practical power: if you can accept that physical discomfort before a risky action is ambiguous — not necessarily a warning but possibly your body preparing you to do something more expansive — then you no longer need to wait for calm before you act. Confidence, he emphasizes, does not come first. Confidence only accumulates after your brain collects enough evidence that you've repeatedly handled situations you once thought were impossible for you.
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