Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

Fear Fades When You Take Control of Your Banking

12 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A brief spoken remark by Richard Canfield distinguishing 'concern' from 'fear'. He defines fear as oriented toward future events ("Future events appearing real"), notes fear is often driven by memories of past similar outcomes, and argues that addressing concrete concerns can reduce fear while opening opportunities.

Concern and fear are two different things. Like, I think you can have concern and not be fearful. Future events appearing real. That's my acronym for fear. Because you can't fear something in the past, it's already happened. You can fear a future thing because it is about to happen, or it could happen. But usually the fear is driven from your mental recollection of something in the past that had a similar outcome or experience. There might be reasons to have fear, but I think more so concern. Because if we address concern, we can minimize fear. And there's also going to be opportunity.