My older readers, and perhaps my more culturally informed younger ones, will recall the name Frankie Valli.

A week or so ago I saw a headline to the effect that his fans were concerned that at a recent concert he had had difficulty lip syncing.

I found that a strange thing to be concerned about. I would have been concerned that he had been lip syncing in the first place.

Imagine being a singer, and having so little respect for your craft and your fans that you would allow yourself to be paid to not sing, and to repeat this night after night.

Yet I saw people in my own social media feeds saying that they go see him for the nostalgia, fully aware that he is lip syncing, and they see nothing wrong with it.

For the life of me I cannot make sense of that. If he were doing a meet and greet with Q&A, sure. Go for the nostalgia and see him.

Listen to his music at home if you like. But he's a 90-year-old man and his career is over. Let's grow up and admit that instead of thinking this is normal or to be encouraged.

Most of the high achievers I encounter in my personal life have rather the opposite problem from Frankie Valli. I would describe him as much too bold, and them as not bold enough.

They're smart, they're ambitious, they have tremendous potential, but they allow themselves to be held back -- by indecisiveness, fear, anxiety, stress, and worry about the future -- from making the kind of bold decisions that would take them to where they know they want to go.

They feel unfulfilled in what they're doing, but they allow these inner demons to keep them paralyzed.

Just because you're a high achiever doesn't mean you're not being held back by a bad inner game. If anything, you are more susceptible to it than others.

At my conference in June, Jeremy Bellotti, a member of my mastermind, led us in an exercise that I'll never forget: in under 20 minutes, he surveyed the audience for its deepest fear, a fear that caused us genuine anxiety on an ongoing basis, and all but eliminated it. He liberated those of us in that room from the power it had once held over us.

I have never seen anything like that in my life.

Only rarely do I urge people on both of my email lists, libertarian and business, to take the same course of action. But Jeremy's live session this Thursday is going to be worth attending, to put it very mildly.

He's going to hit on all this stuff, and reproduce that exercise from my conference so you can have the same experience I did.

Reserve your spot and I'll see you there:

https://www.tomwoods.com/mastery

Tom Woods