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Fear speaks the powerful logic of self-interest. It is also an inveterate liar.
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061 |
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No amount of hiding will actually protect you from scary things.
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062 |
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No rule is perfect, but this one works: Our fears point us, like a self-indicting arrow, in the direction of the right thing to do.
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065 |
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Fear votes for hesitation, it always has a reason for not doing and so it rarely does anything.
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065 |
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If we don’t find ourselves experiencing this hesitation every so often, we should know that we are not pushing ourselves hard enough.
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065 |
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…doing the thing you cannot do. It is almost always the thing you should do.
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066 |
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They say not to take counsel of your fears, but perhaps that’s exactly what we should do. We should listen closely and then do the opposite.
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066 |
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Out of fear, we conform. Out of fear, we don’t do what’s right. We mute ourselves.
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068 |
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When we defer to fear, when we let it decide what we will and won’t do, we miss so much. Not just success, but actualization.
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074 |
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We are as sick as our secrets. We are at the mercy of fears we dare not articulate, paralyzed by assumptions we refuse to put to the test.
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080 |
