Fear is the Mind-Killer

Fear is a dangerous and pervasive thing. Sometimes it can be useful–then it produces caution, and prudence, and awareness of consequences. But all too often, it leads to paralysis and worse.

This is true pretty much everywhere. Life. Publishing. Horse training. Everyone’s afraid of something. It’s how she deals with it that matters.

A few years back, for quite some time, I had a horse trainer who seemed to be good at what she did. She talked a lot about “Mistakes are how you learn,” and “We alw...