in the discipline equals freedom Field Manual the section fear reads how do you overcome feel fear of failure step go but a previous entry reads I don’t want you to overcome fear of failure I want you to be afraid of failure my need a breeding yeah clearly there’s a dichotomy here I know it’s my favorite word apparently according to Dean Lister yes okay there is a dichotomy here because fear is something good that you should take advantage of so it’s kind of good to be afraid because it keeps you on edge add you keeps you from slacking it keeps you preparing as much as you possibly can and all that stuff is good but at the same time yes if you go too far to the other end of spectrum fear gets a hold of you you can’t overcome it so you freeze or you cower or you run away and none of those are good reactions so what I obviously failed to communicate well in the book discipline equals freedom Field Manual is the dichotomy between these spectrum the spectrum of fear that you can have so if you have no fear whatsoever no fear well guess what you get cocky you can get arrogant if you have too much fear you can’t even get out of the gate you just freeze you hesitate so like all dichotomies you got to balance those two that and the way you balance those two is to try and do things that make you feel fear right try and do things that that make you feel fear mmm so that way you get used to it you can over comment you can deal with it you can utilize it if you have a fighter you ever hear UFC fighters I become afraid every time I get in the ring yeah pretty much everybody yeah pretty much everybody I’m afraid cuz you’re you afraid you’re gonna get knocked out you’re afraid this you’re afraid that I’m afraid I’m gonna lose in front of all my family and friends and all that so everyone’s afraid so what does that fear do it drives you to train harder drives you prepare tribes you keep your hands up and your chin down when you’re in the cage right so yeah there’s a healthy level of fear it can also get get the best of you so keep it balanced we talked about this and I think Sam Harris talked about it first for the first I heard it made a point not to go too deep into it but the we’re you know like this okay fear how do you overcome fear step go right it’s essentially like take action be brave in the face of fear yeah but if there’s no fear it’s kind of like you’re not really being brave you’re not you know kind of thing well that’s true yes so could consider that that notion yeah all right so you say yeah I want you to be afraid of failure oh yeah be afraid of failure but you’ve still got a step you just do gotta go you still gotta be brief you know kind of thing so they do actually kind of complement each other really unless you think like oh yeah overcome fear meaning like I’m not scared of it anymore it’s literally not figured it’s always fear but it’s more it’s less about the fear being you know it reduced to zero it’s more about being brave training yourself to be embraced with you’re here yeah embrace the fear and the and so to continue with that thought in order to embrace the fear what do you do you step do you go into it so there you go there’s your answer
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