A talk on how fear and anxiety stem from stories we tell ourselves rather than reality. The speaker explores what's real about fear and what's just the narrative we've built around it.
Fear is real. I would not sit here on a podcast and say it's not real. Like, it is a real thing. But most times the stories we internalize, they're not. So there's the thing that happens, which it induces anxiety and it induces stress and the fear, right? But then it's the story that we tell ourselves about that moment, or it's the stories that we tell ourselves leading up to that moment that many times, again, are just internalized stories, not necessarily what did happen or what will happen. Like, we've all heard that story of, like, somebody comes in, robs a store, and they get the feedback. Dude was 6, 5 XYZ, ABC and then come to find out he was like 5 foot 4. But, like, people just don't remember, like, the right stuff when it happens. Most fear I've realized, especially in my life, I'm speaking of myself right now. Most fear is a moment in time, but it's not a reality that should live on forever.
