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What fear are you working on overcoming?

Name: What fear are you working on overcoming?
Uploaded: 2022-06-15T15:00:15+00:00
Duration: 24 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief self‑help monologue, the speaker explains a practical exposure‑based strategy for conquering a fear of flying. The core idea is to…

15 Jun 2022 · 0 min

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In this brief self‑help monologue, the speaker explains a practical exposure‑based strategy for conquering a fear of flying. The core idea is to deliberately schedule multiple flights in rapid succession—daily or weekly—to reinforce the approach behavior each time a flight is taken. By repeatedly confronting the fear, the individual strengthens the positive coping response and prevents the avoidance pattern that would otherwise deepen the fear. The speaker emphasizes that each flight acts as a reinforcement of the desired behavior, whereas avoiding flights would reinforce the fear itself.

Say that you have a fear of flying. You take your first flight, you're like, oh my gosh, I was super nervous. You want to repeat that action as many times as possible in the shortest amount of time. You want to go fly the next day, the next day, the next day, maybe do a weekly trip. And so you want to continue to repeat and reinforce that behavior. So what you're doing is you're reinforcing the behavior that is going to overcome the fear rather than reinforcing the fear. Because every time you don't take action against the fear, you reinforce to be scared of something.