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Just search new here. Welcome to the H-B-Ridea cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. Today I'm talking with

Tara Moore, author of Playing Big. Tara, thank you so much for talking with us today.

Oh, thanks for having me. So you argue in the book that too many of us are playing small when we actually have the capacity to do bigger things.

Is it just fear that holds us back? What's sort of the thing that really is getting in our way?

Absolutely at the core fear, fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of doing something so

innovative that maybe it's controversial or makes you feel alone in

what you're doing all of those are really big fears but another huge block

for people is simply self-doubt having that inner critic voice and not

having any tools to manage it. So before we get too far down the rabbit hole of

the inner critic I do want to just pause here and ask you about

something you wrote in the book about dealing with praise. In the book you

mentioned that you have to unhook from both criticism and from praise. So why

is it so important to re-evaluate your relationship with praise as well as

how you feel about criticism? Well certainly none of this is a have to but it is a

question of is my relationship to praise really serving my biggest goals?

And what I find is that for many people they come to a juncture in their careers where to move

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