The key, I discovered, is to understand fear and how it works. What I want to do is demystify fear. I don’t have a choice, because fear walks next to you everywhere in life. It has a reason for being there. People feel fear because they sense a threat. Sometimes it comes from physical pain: something unseen falls on your head, it hurts, and you’re immediately scared. That’s normal, and what the fear is doing is telling you to be careful, to get out of the way because it doesn’t want something else to fall on your head. So fear’s purpose is ultimately good—that’s what people forget. Fear is
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