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How To Ask Out Your Crush

Proven strategies for overcoming your fear of rejection

Matt Lillywhite
3 min readOct 7, 2019

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How often have you wanted to ask out your crush, but never dared to do so? If you’re anything like me, the answer is probably something like “all the time.”

It’s a difficult thing to do. The constant fear of rejection is what holds most people back from taking the first steps to saying how they genuinely feel.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Because once you build up the confidence to ask them out, you’ll discover a world of endless potential.

You will stop letting fear hold you back from achieving your biggest dreams.

And you will stop allowing your thoughts to control your life because you will realize that you’re in control of your destiny.

Why Should I Ask Out My Crush?

Good question. The short answer is that it’s better to know if they feel the same than to spend the rest of your life wondering what could have been. Seneca said it best: “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

What he meant is that we often spend our days overthinking instead of taking action to create a better life. So when you find yourself falling deeply in love with somebody else, don’t keep yourself awake all night…

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Matt Lillywhite

Full-time storyteller, part-time procrastinator. Writing to inspire, entertain, and avoid doing laundry. Substack: https://mattlillywhite.substack.com/subscribe