“Danger is real, fear is a choice” ― Will Smith
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” — Pema Chodron
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie
“Life can be the scariest and most beautiful thing simultaneously.” — Maxime Lagace
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” — Dale Carnegie
“There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.” — The Buddha
“FEAR has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.” — Zig Ziglar
“If you approach the mountain in fear, it will look bigger than it appears.” — Tene Edwards
“We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.” — Robin Sharma
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” — Rudyard Kipling
“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.” — Rabindranath Tagore
If you can’t beat the fear, do it scared.
If you want something, do it. If you want something, but you’re scared, do it scared.
If we’re controlled by fear, we’re in the mode of ignorance.
Reframe fear as an information gap. Gather information and conquer your fears.
心中有敵，天下皆為敵。心中無敵，無敵於天下。
Solution
- #TODO Fear-setting by Tim Ferriss
(define your fears instead of your goals) - Ali Abdaal
- Name the fear
- Overcome the fear
- “Will it matter in ten minutes? In ten weeks? In ten years?”
- Reduce the fear
- The Batman Effect: self-distancing, thinking yourself as a separate entity (someone other than yourself)
- Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity
Naval Ravikant
- “90% of our thoughts are fear-based. 10% of our thoughts are desire-based.”
- “I think it’s not we fear death. It’s we fear not living the life that we want. And I think the easiest way to get out of that is to start living the life you want now, not putting/frittering it off.”
- This will make you feel that life is long, and you will be less afraid of dying.
Becoming the Ocean by Khalil Gibram