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The Playbook With David Meltzer

When Fear Becomes Fuel

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I break down how fear, when properly managed, becomes a catalyst instead of a constraint. Drawing from Napoleon Hill’s timeless principles, I share a three-step approach: stop, drop, and roll. This helps you respond to fear in real time and stay aligned with your purpose. Whether it's public speaking, launching a project, or changing careers, your reaction to fear is often more important than the fear itself. By identifying emotional patterns, replacing ego-driven responses with gratitude, and training the brain to reroute stress, we can convert anxiety into momentum. This is about progress, not perfection, and using discomfort as directional fuel.

Transcript

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0:00.0

let's talk about fear and the omnipresence of fear and how we react to fear with the

0:05.4

definiteness of purpose uh fear is the price that we pay to utilize our life at a learning

0:14.7

zone uh to pay for the ambition that we have to consistently and persistently pursue our potential within

0:24.2

the context of that pursuit, in the definiteness of purpose, in the divine direction, the trajectory

0:30.3

of where we want to be or better, fear will show its ugly head. And anytime we aim for something bigger in the learning zone

0:42.2

than our current comfort zone we are either launching a new venture we're changing careers

0:48.9

speaking on global stages whatever it may be our brain brain, our bodies, our souls, rings an alarm.

0:57.9

And if this alarm is left unchecked, that alarm will interfere with the infinite energy that we have,

1:04.0

the infinite creativity that we have, the infinite information, and the prioritization process

1:09.7

and clarity that we need to accelerate aggregate and compound our

1:15.4

journey, our divine direction to succeed. Fear is also, though, information in itself. It reveals

1:22.7

the edges of our comfort zone to know and point directly to the areas that we can utilize

1:29.9

for our greatest growth. It provides information that we are learning. It also provides information

1:36.5

if we step beyond the learning zone into an anxiety zone. Remember, the comfort zone will

1:43.5

constrict on itself until we can't get out of bed and so will the anxiety zone. Remember, the comfort zone will constrict on itself until we can't get out of bed,

1:46.1

and so will the anxiety zone. And so fear is the framework, is the bowling alley bumpers to make

1:56.1

sure we stay in the learning zone to achieve our greatest growth, to pursue our potential.

2:02.4

This guide, which I'm happy to give to you today, this training and exercise, which I'm

2:07.6

happy to give to you today, just email me. I will send it to you, David at demounser.com.

2:13.9

This guide equips you with a stop, drop, and roll framework, a simple, repeatable process to

2:20.9

utilize and shorten the distance of interference, the shorten distance of resistance of the

2:27.4

anxiety in real time, utilizing a different definition of surrender ego, and utilizing a driven resistance and convert

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