To Fear or Not to Fear
Sweet Bites for August 2, 2024
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🦉 Wisdom
“Our decisions concerning moral rectitude and depravity are evidently perceptions. Morality, therefore, is more properly felt than judged of.”
David Hume
Source: Perception (by Dennis Proffitt and Drake Baer)
📚 This Week’s Monday Meditation
🏋🏻 Handling Fear
In this clip from Gary Vaynerchuk, he talks about the need to see failure not as a negative but rather as a positive. Failure, over the last 40 years according to Vaynerchuk, has been something to avoid as a way to protect people and their feelings. But it is through practicing failure and rejection that we learn it is never as painful as we thought and there is plenty to learn from the experience.
In this second clip from Vaynerchuk, he stresses the importance of separating our fears into two categories: the practical and the emotional. Too often we allow the emotional fears to take over our thought process. But when we take a step back and better assess our fear, we can breakdown the root cause and from there build a path to overcome the fear.
📖 Book Recommendation
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
In The Science of Storytelling Will Storr investigates humans’ infatuation with stories, from the stories we tell to entertain to the ones we tell in our every day lives. Stories exist everywhere around us and we are more than happy to devour them.
✏️ This Week’s Wednesday Wisdom
🏋🏻 Overcoming Fear for Others
This clip from Michael Jordan shows exactly why it is important we overcome our fears. While overcoming fear is important for ourselves, it also shows others, whether it be people in our immediate lives or people watching from afar, that we can find success even as all odds are against us, and this is more often than not rooted in overcoming our fears.
📰 Article
How to Not Fear Death by Sam Dresser
Perhaps the greatest fear of all, the fear of death lingers over most of us. In this article, Dresser, leaning on Epicurean philosophy, investigates the fear of death and works to better understand how we can release its hold over us.
“But death itself – not the process of dying, which is something different – doesn’t seem to be the sort of thing that one can reasonably be fearful of because it isn’t anything. It’s not uncomfortable or hurtful to be dead. It’s not as if you’re being deprived of life or of more contented years because, again, you simply aren’t there to be deprived in the first place. For you, there is nowhere to locate the harm of being dead since being dead isn’t a state of being. It’s not something that strictly speaking happens to you and so it can’t be harmful.”
🛠️ Tactic
In the below video, Tony Robbins shares some of the advice he’s shared with millions of others on how to overcome the fear of failure.
Until next time,
D.A. DiGerolamo
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