How To Not Be Scared
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Becca is 6-feet tall, bold and strong-willed. She's also easily startled and paralyzed by fear — even a children's haunted house can reduce her to tears. In this episode of How To!, we bring in sociologist Margee Kerr, author of Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear, to give us the lowdown on surviving scary situations. Can making fear more fun help Becca overcome her startle reflex in time for Halloween?
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| 0:31.4 | like, what's the scariest thing that ever happened to you? Well, that'll be a conversation for my |
| 0:36.8 | therapist. Because, you know, I mean, our fears are, |
| 0:42.2 | they're deep, they're personal things, which for me is just more evidence of why we should |
| 0:47.6 | find opportunities to kind of play with it, to know it, to not be afraid of it. |
| 0:56.5 | This is how to. I'm Charles Duhigg. |
| 1:01.4 | Each week, we talk to listeners who reach out to us with a problem they want to know how to fix. And on today's episode, be afraid. Be very afraid. |
| 1:10.4 | Just like this week's listener. |
| 1:12.8 | My name is Becca, and I am from Bradenton, Florida. |
| 1:16.8 | So Becca, you reached out to us because you have a problem. |
| 1:21.3 | Tell me a little bit about it. |
| 1:22.9 | I am very scared of the stupidest things to be scared of. |
| 1:29.7 | So I have such a strong physical reaction. |
| 1:33.1 | If I'm spooked or being chased or anything like that, I immediately shut down and start crying and just can't help it. |
| 1:43.7 | Oh my gosh, that sounds unpleasant, |
| 1:46.6 | particularly with Halloween coming up. Especially when your husband likes to go to haunted houses |
| 1:51.5 | and hasn't been able to for the six years you've been together with him. So, and are you, |
| 1:56.9 | are you kind of like a meek person? Like, you a scarity cat in general or is this kind of |
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