Fear and faith are both imagination, but fear grows wild while faith is directed vision of what you want. The speaker argues courage isn't fearlessness, it's acting anyway. A gladiator mindset paired with that directed imagination is what gets entrepreneurs through obstacles to their dreams.
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And if you let it dominate you, you cannot ever dream of being a successful business person long-term. What's the difference between faith and fear? They're both made up. No one knows what's really going to happen. They're both imagined. If you have faith, you're imagining. If you fear, you're imagining. The only difference is fear is imagination undirected. It's like weeds. It grows automatically, and if you let it dominate you, you cannot ever dream of being a successful business person long term. That doesn't mean you're not fearful. Courage means you're afraid, but you do it anyway. That's the only difference. It's not courage if you're not afraid. Faith is imagination directed, saying, this is how it will be, this is what I will create, I will find the way. And because of that internal certainty, you usually do. And without that gut, without that psychology, without that mindset, without what I call a gladiator mindset. You walk in and you're gonna take out any obstacle. I'm gonna find a way even though everything's against me. That is what will make you have your dream come true.