Overcoming Fear - SPARTAN MIND ep 013
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Fear is one of those emotions that can significantly impact our choices, behaviors, and ways that we engage with the world. We all have our own set of fears and the intensity to which we feel fear about different things varies as well. One trap that we can all fall into though is the misbelief that the intensity of our fear is a measure of our capacity to handle the challenge that is ahead of us. When we connect fear with ability we are more at risk of becoming immobilized and opting out of what it is that we are afraid of instead of moving onward.
LESSONS:
- The intensity that we feel fear is no measure of our capacity to handle the challenge ahead.
- We can be very afraid of something and incredibly capable of conquering the challenge at the same time.
- We must deconstruct the belief that the intensity of our fear is somehow associated with our abilities.
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Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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| 0:00.0 | Is Fear holding you back? |
| 0:02.0 | Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. with Spartan Mind, |
| 0:10.0 | your chief mindock here. |
| 0:12.0 | And today we're talking about fear as a psychologist and a |
| 0:16.4 | human being I've noticed that fear gets in the way of us engaging in things that |
| 0:22.4 | we want to engage in but we're afraid of. |
| 0:26.1 | And one of the reasons why fear gets in the way is because we often have this misbelief that |
| 0:30.9 | the more intensely we feel fear the less capacity we have to deal with what's in |
| 0:36.8 | front of us and that is not always the case yes we can be afraid of something |
| 0:41.7 | because we might not be very good at it, |
| 0:44.0 | but we can also be afraid of things for reasons that are far beyond that, |
| 0:48.0 | right? |
| 0:49.0 | Irrational reasons or reasons that have to do with things from our childhood or past. |
| 0:54.0 | There's a whole lot of different reasons why fear exists. |
| 0:57.0 | But not always and usually not the case |
| 1:00.0 | is it because you cannot handle what is in front of you. |
| 1:03.5 | I'll give you an example. |
| 1:05.0 | Yesterday I gave a presentation and I was a little bit nervous, |
| 1:08.0 | but I wouldn't say that I was afraid. |
| 1:10.0 | But if I was afraid, one of the ways that fear might trip me up is because I would think that the |
| 1:15.4 | more afraid I am of giving this presentation, the less well I'm going to do. |
| 1:21.0 | When actually that's not the case. So I want you to think about that a little |
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