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title: Fear
created: 2024-11-18T09:18:12
modified: 2025-12-23T17:29:52
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> _“Danger is real, fear is a choice” ― Will Smith_

> _“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” — Pema Chodron_

> _“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie_

> _“Life can be the scariest and most beautiful thing simultaneously.” — Maxime Lagace_

> _“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” — Dale Carnegie_

> _“There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.” — The Buddha_

> _“FEAR has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.” — Zig Ziglar_

> _“If you approach the mountain in fear, it will look bigger than it appears.” — Tene Edwards_

> _“We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.” — Robin Sharma_

> _[“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” — Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8131554-do-not-fear-failure-but-rather-fear-not-trying)_

> _“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” — Rudyard Kipling_

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If you can’t beat the fear, do it scared.

If you want something, do it. If you want something, but you’re scared, do it scared.

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If we’re controlled by fear, we’re in the mode of ignorance.

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[Reframe](a-true-transformation-begins-with-a-mental-shift.md) fear as an information gap. Gather information and conquer your fears.

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[Fear comes from inexperience, not incapability. You’re afraid because you haven’t done it yet, not because you can’t do it.](https://x.com/SahilBloom/status/1910310140995416458)

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心中有敵，天下皆為敵。心中無敵，無敵於天下。

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# Solution

* #TODO [Fear-setting by Tim Ferriss](https://tim.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ted_ferriss_fear_setting_sample_slides.pdf) (define your fears instead of your goals)
* Ali Abdaal
	1. Name the fear
	2. Overcome the fear
		* “_Will it matter in ten minutes? In ten weeks? In ten years?_”
	3. Reduce the fear
		* The Batman Effect: self-distancing, thinking yourself as a separate entity (someone other than yourself)
* Replace fear of the unknown with [curiosity](stay-curious.md)

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# Naval Ravikant

* _“90% of our thoughts are fear-based. 10% of our thoughts are [desire](the-absence-of-desire-is-true-happiness.md)-based.”_
* _“I think it’s not we fear [death](death.md). It’s we fear not [living the life that we want](how-to-live-a-life.md). And I think the easiest way to get out of that is to [start living the life you want](intentional-living.md) [now](live-in-the-present.md), not putting/frittering it off.”_
	* This will make you feel that life is long, and you will be less afraid of [dying](death.md).

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_Becoming the Ocean_ – A Poem by Khalil Gibram

> _It is said that before entering the sea,_
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> _a river trembles with fear._
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> _She looks back at the path she has travelled,_
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> _from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages._
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> _And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever._
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> _But there is no other way._
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> _The river can not go back._
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> _Nobody can go back._
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> _To go back is impossible in existence._
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> _**The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.**_

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[Overthinking](overthinking.md)

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[Fear of Failure and Success](fear-of-failure-and-success.md)

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[Courage is knowing what not to fear](courage-is-knowing-what-not-to-fear.md)