Let's make a sacred pact.

I promise to teach Karate that to my part.

You promise one, I say you do no question, that to your part, dear, still.

That clip is from the Karate Kid, and if you grew up as a child of the 80s like I did,

you know the Karate Kid.

Even if you didn't, odds are you know the Karate Kid.

They resurrected it now.

I think it's a Netflix series called Cobra Kai.

In this clip from the Karate Kid, Mr. Miyagi, who is Daniel Sons Sensei, his teacher, is

making a pact with him.

I promise I will teach you Karate, and in turn, you promise that you will learn from me.

I will tell you what to do, and you will do it without asking me questions.

That is the basis of their pact as teacher and student.

And so it really lends itself to this week's episode because we're going to talk about

the role of anxiety not as your enemy in the world, but as your teacher.

And it's very similar to the relationship that Daniel had to have with Mr. Miyagi, where

Mr. Miyagi told him to do things that he did not want to do.

He hated doing them, but he could not question them.

He just had to do them because they served the purpose.

And in the end, it worked out.

And that's kind of the way you have to start to look at your anxiety and the fear, the

irrational fear that comes along with it.

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