Fear is not completely illusionary. It’s usually 90% illusionary It’s better to be wrong 9 times out of 10 and live then be right 9 times out of 10 and die Fear is duly overcompensating You should learn from that ancient, evolutionary mechanism It’s the one whose over-prepared and overreacting that survives With …
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Healing The Symptoms
Its not just that healing the symptoms is not healing the causes — but that healing symptoms precludes healing causes, by making the problem invisible Healing the symptoms doesn’t just fail to address the problem — it actually makes it worse Therefore you should altogether avoid addressing symptoms or numbing yourself or distracting Because then …
Fear As The Truth About Risk
Fear is exciting until it is overwhelming This nature of fear reveals the truth about life: Risk is advantageous until it is excessive. Then it becomes harmful. (At least when you’re antifragile) Your default risk-management system — FEAR — doesn’t always understand the risk concerned. Most people overestimate the risk in their own lives. …
XXI Century Fear
All fear is ultimately useless for all the fear in the world can still not protect you from the imminent death. Fear can be disregarded altogether for as long as you DON’T DIE. The point of fear was never to stifle you. In fact — the point of fear was to keep you …
You Must Disagree… Even When You’re Wrong
You must disagree. You have to. There is no other choice. Life is short and you don’t know what to do. You can now trust others and hope they are right. You have no reason to believe anyone is right. You have every reason to believe everyone is wrong. You see all this misery, …
Fear; Away from Fear; Beyond Fear
I thought there were 3 standards of fear. 3 permutations. One is the pure presence of the FEAR ITSELF. It’s the fear unfiltered, fear present and real. It’s the fear which just is, and we have not addressed it or treated it in any way… we haven’t labeled it, we haven’t repressed it, we …
One Fears Unknown
One fears unknown Fear prevents one from achieving one’s goals Else it simply feels bad Or just plainly obstructs the vision Thus one responds by either Evading the unknown, Or by making it known But perhaps there’s a different approach entirely One of accepting the unknown And the fear that goes with it …