Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

What if fear wasn’t a block, but a breakthrough waiting to happen? 💥

26 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Fleet Maull that reframes fear as a source of learning rather than an obstacle. The speaker uses comic-book metaphors (Swamp Thing/Man-Thing) to illustrate how fear can be invited to teach us, and recommends somatic approaches—breathing and movement—to work with fear rather than suppress it.

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Sad fact about fear is the more you make it try to go away, the worse it comes back on you. If you look into Swamp Thing and the predecessor to that called Man Thing comics, but Swamp Thing lives on fear. And if I'm standing there on the shore and I'm scared, Swamp Thing will come up out of the bog and begin to move toward me. But as if I open up and ask my fear, hey, what do you got here to teach me? Or what can I learn from this? SW Swamp Thing goes, ooh. Goes back into the bug again. So we want to use the energy of Swamp Thing, but not have it up in our faces all the time. And the only way I really think, to do that, that really work, are all somatic in nature, having to do with breathing or movement.