A short YouTube conversation (James Laughlin interviewing another speaker) about how fear drives many leadership struggles (fear of failure, disappointment, harming others) and a practical coping method: using a "Worst Case Scenario" exercise to assess and deflate exaggerated fears.
Going back to fear, because a lot of things that we struggle with as leaders are driven by fear. Fear of failure, fear of disappointment, fear of letting others die. So when we're dealing with fear, what's the most effective way to actually confront it or actually to engage with fear?
The way I think about how to control my own fear and anxiety is to look at the time moment that's coming up, the moment where I have to perform and I just do this simple game called Worst Case Scenario to go, what's the worst case? How bad could it really be? And when you look at it, it's normally not that bad at all, but we kind of obsess about, oh, it's going to be terrible.
