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In 1932, in his first inaugural address, Franklin D Roosevelt famously said,

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. This is a far more profound idea than you might first give it

credit. I think it was Mr Bacon who said it first, Sir Francis Bacon that is, in an essay back in the 1500s when he wrote,

Nothing is terrible except fear itself. You see, it's not the fear you fear.

We've already discussed there's no such thing as fear.

Fear's an illusion one you make up in your mind.

So it really isn't the fear of fear you fear.

FDR goes on to say in that inaugural address,

nameless unreasoning, unjustified terror

is paralyzing the needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

And that is true for you in your life every time you feel fear and let it grip you.

The nameless unre unreasoning, unjustified terror is paralyzing you and the efforts

you need to make the advance and are being spent instead on your retreat, meaning hunkering to your fear.

So here is the great conundrum of it all.

It is not the actual act that gives you fear, the act of making a phone call, the act of standing in front of a group of people and making a speech,

the act of itself is itself not the cause of fear. It is the fear of the fear, meaning the

anticipation of the act that is the thing you fear. You know the famous

experiment done by University of Massachusetts Professor Seymour Epstein in his 1960s Fear study,

he experimented with something most fine terrifying.

He took novices, put him in a plane, and then push them out.

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