Fear of investing is taught, not innate. Doing nothing is riskier than starting. The speaker warns against passivity, using the Chicken Little metaphor to describe people who hide and hope things improve instead of taking action.
A lot of people think investing is a big, crazy, outrageous leap outside of your comfort zone, right? But it doesn't have to be that way. And a lot of people put a lot of fear into this mix, into the, even the idea about investing. And unfortunately, we're taught a lot to be fearful about money, to be fearful about investing. But you know what scares me the most? What scares me the most is people who are not doing anything because you are just going to be a victim to the circumstances of all these external things going on around you. And you're literally sitting in the Chicken Little syndrome with the doona pulled over your head, hoping that everything is going to work out. I think that's a terrible strategy.
