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I am your host, Michael Covell, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

What scares us and why?

What's scarier, the deadly snake slithering across your path during a hike or watching a thousand-point drop in the stock market?

Look, both of those instill fear.

But researchers disagree over the nature and cause of this very powerful

emotion. I saw the one comment from a professor. He said, look, when you see the stock market

fall thousand points, that's the same as seeing a snake. It's this fear, this response to the immediate stimuli.

It's the empty feeling in your gut, the racing of your heart, palm sweating, the nervousness.

That's your brain responding in a pre-programmed way to a very specific threat.

And he added, since our brains are programmed to be very similar in structure, we can assume

that what I experience, what I'm threatened, is something similar to what you experience.

Now, that's not a universally held belief.

There is a ton of disagreement.

Science's ability to completely understand and described fear is elusive.

Hundreds of studies have been done about how bodies react to fear,

and there's still no way to quantify fear itself.

However, there's a book out, The Science of Fear,

why we fear the things we shouldn't, and put ourselves in greater danger. I found a quote that's very relevant to where I want to go today. Once again, snakes.

Quote, the rather uncomfortable feeling most of us have when we're around snakes is evidence of

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