The Cure For Fear
The Robin Sharma Mastery Sessions
Robin Sharma
4.8 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Transcending what terrifies you and finding freedom from fear is one of the primary pursuits of people rising to world-class, both in their work and within their lives. The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth. So why flee from it? In this hot new Mastery Session, I walk you through some of my best thinking on how to become braver, stronger and more creative in the face of resistance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma. Welcome to the Mastery Sessions. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, it's Robin Sharma, author of the leader who had no title, founder of the Titan Academy, |
| 0:11.0 | and I want to welcome you to this mastery session. It's about an incredibly |
| 0:14.7 | important topic that is so fascinating to so many people. The cure for fear. If you're |
| 0:22.3 | a human you're going to face fear. If you're human you're going to face fear. And so one of the things that |
| 0:26.2 | A players do that leaders without titles do, that iconic human beings do, is they |
| 0:32.2 | develop a resilience or hardiness in the face of fear. |
| 0:36.6 | A story I remember reading in an OSHA book a while ago. |
| 0:40.6 | So there was this man and he was a mountain climber. So he climbed the mountain and he reached the summit. |
| 0:47.0 | But he sort of misjudged the timing and it became dark. |
| 0:50.0 | And so he made his way down the mountain as the sunset. |
| 0:54.2 | But he got to a place where it became so dark he couldn't move. |
| 0:57.5 | And he thought he was on this ledge. |
| 1:00.1 | And he just became paralyzed by fear. He just realized that if he moved a few inches over, |
| 1:06.9 | he would fall thousands and thousands of meters or feet |
| 1:10.4 | to his death. |
| 1:11.6 | And so all night, that was the most terrifying night of his life. |
| 1:15.0 | He was on this ledge. He couldn't even move forward because he thought he'd fall. |
| 1:20.0 | And he just stayed there frozen for hours and hours and |
| 1:24.4 | hours. And then with the first rays of daylight he started to laugh. And the |
| 1:30.0 | reason he started to laugh was he realized just below the ledge there was this huge stone |
| 1:34.9 | platform. |
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