{"id":1667,"date":"2019-04-29T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritasincorporated.com\n\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2019-08-20T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:58:00","slug":"the-fear-factor-5-things-that-can-go-wrong-in-an-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritasincorporated.com\/2019\/04\/the-fear-factor-5-things-that-can-go-wrong-in-an-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fear Factor: 5 Things That Can Go Wrong In An Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It was sometime in 2012 when the idea started to germinate. At the time it seemed like a distant possibility. I\n thought, \u201cCan I do it?\u201d It would take near-perfect weather, remaining injury-free, and a determination to reach a\n goal that seemed implausible at the time. It meant sacrifice. It meant early mornings, long drives, planning, and\n hundreds of miles alone on trails.<\/p>\n\n
I thought there was an outside chance I could climb the rest of Colorado\u2019s 14,000 foot peaks. By mid-summer it had\n become a bit of an obsession. I realized there were some difficult summits left with names like Capitol Peak, Little\n Bear, Sunlight Peak, Pyramid Peak, South Maroon, Wilson Peak and Longs Peak. By September 8th, I reached the top of\n my thirty-forth summit for the season just outside of Telluride \u2013 alone, worried, and relieved.<\/p>\n\n
Italian climber Reinhold Messner said, \u201cI learned through trying and sometimes failing, not always through\n succeeding.\u201d I have great respect for the mountains just as I do the open oceans. I have been afraid, and still am.\n But fear in the absence of risk is irrational. Fear is part of a larger task; of putting ourselves into difficult\n situations. This is just as true with interviews, with public speaking, with relationships as it is with mountains.\n Risk is part of life because sometimes our best plans don\u2019t work out like we hope.<\/p>\n\n
As an author, you understand that things don\u2019t always go as planned. So let\u2019s take a few moments to look at what can\n go wrong during a media interview and what you can do about it.<\/p>\n\n
The best you can do when things go awry is to relax and move on. We cannot anticipate every possibility in life or\n during interviews. We try to go with the flow, trust God for clarity, and move forward even when the unexpected\n occurs; because it will.<\/p>\n\n\n