Doubt Riding Shotgun
My book: Doubt Riding Shotgun is available now! You can buy the paperback or print book via this link.
I’ve also recently launched a monthly meetup group called Doubters Anonymous.
Here are some recent reviews:
★★★★★
“Dave expresses the notion that your doubt can be very similar to close family members or friends in your life in that you could choose to listen to and reason with their opinions or sometimes choose to politely disagree with them and agree to disagree. Learning to hear your doubt, but not always choose to listen to it is a very powerful paradigm shift when navigating some of your own fears. Doubt Riding Shotgun has been very helpful in helping me reframe and reconsider how to navigate my own self doubt.” Stanton Moore, GRAMMY award-winning musician, author, teacher and performer.
★★★★★
“A book on a tough subject that is surprisingly fun to read. The author is very authentic and feels like a friend who is there to help us along our collective journey of finding a more empowered relationship with our doubts. I'm glad for this book!” George Kao, Authentic Business Coach, and Author
★★★★★
“Doubt Riding Shotgun is a truly amazing offering. I was struck by how approachable, clever, warm, and digestible it is. I think this book can change the world!” Erin MacCoy, Spiritual Intuitive Life & Business Coach
★★★★★
“Doubt Riding Shotgun is a must-read, full of practical applications for everyday life. I wish I would have read it years ago.” Danny Kolke, Pianist, bandleader, teacher, and founder of Jazz Clubs NW
★★★★★
“Dave Hill doesn't ask readers to banish their doubt. Instead, his jargon-free wisdom guides us to understand and appreciate our own unique doubt, then transform it into a well-behaved passenger.” Amy Siedenstrang, Author and Designer
★★★★★
“A valuable voice of a good friend who is on a journey of meeting his own demons, and has some words to share with you on this to make you feel less alone and more brave.” Agata Belanger, Integral Master Coach, Leadership Agility Coach
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★★★★★
“The overly creative mind has a particularly nasty habit of subconscious self-sabotage. Doubt Riding Shotgun helps untether the helpful from the detrimental, and the useful from the frivolous. Dave's writing style helps guide the reader to find their own supportive voice.” Greg Hoy Songwriter, Musician, and Co-Founder of the The Hiring Guild
★★★★★
“Dave Hill Jr. has penned a book that is simultaneously deep and entertaining. He examines doubt from all angles, empowering the reader to take control of their self-actualization. Highly recommended!” TW Walsh, Songwriter, Musician, Mastering Engineer.
★★★★★
“This book was a real breath of fresh air for me. Positioning doubt in this simple and conversational way, and providing so many ways to exercise muscles around the conversation we have with doubt. I have a habit of dog-earing the bottom of pages that I want to come back to, and I feel like I marked every page in this book.” Bradford Swanson, Music Technology Executive
★★★★★
Goodbye, Doubt! Great book! Dave dives deep into the metaphor of Doubt as a passenger in your car. He touches on world-class doubters like legendary music producer Daniel Lanois and gets creative with ways to name and disable your doubt. If you ever doubted yourself, your skills, capabilities or anything else, this fantastic book will help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Very highly recommended. Jeff Leisawitz, Author, Coach, Keynote Speaker
★★★★★
A wealth of inspiration! How can you learn to recognize and overcome the central, universal, human hindrance? Dave Hill Jr. has tackled this difficult and tremendously important task with extraordinary skill, humility, and dedication. The result is this wonderfully well-written guide through relatable personal stories and carefully honed techniques, all gathered into a vast and diverse pool of wisdom. If doubt regularly rises as the antagonist in your life and you'd like to transform it into a helpful sidekick, this book contains a wealth of inspiration for you. Matt Moldolver, Artist, Technologist & Instrument Designer
★★★★★ 5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect combination of the philosphical and pragmatic.
In my 53 years of life, only two other books have led to an inflection point in the way I live my life. The first was Jon Kabat-Zinn's Full Catastrophe Living and the second was David Burn's famous work, Feeling Good. Well, I have now added a third book to this top shelf - Doubt Riding Shotgun.
As someone who has been trying to finish a career change for five years and an 'aspiring' musician with 17 songs I can't finish, I felt stuck. If I received a favorable view during a work annual review, I felt that I was in the wrong meeting or I have pulled off a great scam on my employer for them to think I was doing good work. I never considered that self-doubt was the culprit.
This book made me realize that I have a highly intrusive 'doubt passenger'. Until I finished the book, I never thought that this self-doubt was something that can be overcome. I always thought it was just a truth and I had to deal with in a brute-force manner. Sometimes that worked, most of the time it did not. The author gives a perfect combination of high-level thoughtfulness, pragmatic advice, and personal anecdotes to help us understand why we suffer from self-doubt and how to overcome and rise above it, while also appreciating its beneficial side (i.e. keeping us out of trouble) Lastly, Dave keeps the reading entertaining and interesting by sharing his own experiences with self-doubt. This will be a book I re-read every year and share with friends - no doubt about that. Jonathan Walton, Software Architect, Musician
Doubt often adds his or her own flavor of color commentary!
Working With Self-Doubt
I wrote this book in order to help others work more harmoniously with their negative passenger. Writing this book also helped me move past my own self-doubt that I’d write a book, become a songwriter, and many other self-imposed limits.
The idea is that Doubt never goes away entirely, and that's okay.
What’s important is how we come to know and work with our unique Doubt passenger so that we can trust our intuition, go beyond fear, and create the life we want.
My mission in writing this book is that Doubt can be heard, but doesn't get to have the final say.
Other Types of Self-Doubt: Imposter Syndrome, Perfectionism, and More
This book is meant to help anyone struggling with debilitating self-doubt in its many forms.
Imposter syndrome
Perfectionism
Option overwhelm
Not good enough
