A short YouTube monologue (creator: Elay Amitay Halevi) arguing that fear is largely an illusion: when you do what you fear most you usually find only mild discomfort rather than the catastrophic outcomes imagined. The speaker encourages stepping forward despite fear, noting that confronting discomfort yields personal growth and expansion.
When you've gone and done the thing that you fear the most, you realize there was never anything to really fear. So if you were to do the thing that scares you, you will maybe feel some discomfort. But you're not ever in as much pain as the fear makes you think you're going to be in. And so remember that when you realize that you're acting out of fear of something happening, or fear of something not happening, or fear of feeling a certain way. Fear is a mile wide and an inch deep. It is an illusion. It is made up. And as soon as you step forward, despite feeling fear, you realize that the fear was completely unfounded and there was nothing to fear in the first place except maybe a little bit of discomfort. But with that discomfort comes growth and expansion, so it was worth it anyway.
