Evan CarmichaelSpeaker / Author / Introvert

You Feel Fear? Do THIS to Move Forward

3 Jan 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational monologue, the speaker acknowledges that fear is a strong, normal emotion that most people experience. He argues that when a goal or belief is sufficiently important, one should act despite the fear, letting the significance of the task drive action rather than allowing fear to halt progress. He also introduces the concept of fatalism—accepting the probabilities of outcomes—as a mental strategy that can lessen fear by reducing the anxiety over uncertainty. The overall message encourages embracing fear as a natural signal, using importance and a degree of fatalistic acceptance to move forward.

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Well, first of all, I'd say I actually think I feel fear quite strongly. So it's not as though I just have the absence of fear. I feel it quite strongly. But there are just times when something is important enough, you believe in it enough, that you do it in spite of the fear. So speaking of important things— Like, people shouldn't think, well, I feel fear about this, and therefore I shouldn't do it. It's normal to feel fear. Like, you'd have to— there'd have to be something mentally wrong if you didn't feel fear. So you just feel it and let the importance of it drive you to do it anyway? Yeah. You know, actually, something that can be helpful is fatalism, to some degree. If you just accept the probabilities, then that diminishes fear.