“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.
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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)
- 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