What’s that you say? Fear is good?
You know, sometimes fear is good. I know, I know. Jay & I are always talking about how you should overcome your fear. And we will certainly keep on doing it. But, really, it’s true. Having some fear is healthy. Fear plays an important role in our psyche. It’s helped us survive as humans for millennia. Without the fear flight response – the instinctual urge to cower and run in the face of danger – our species would have been hunted into extinction by those big, scary saber-toothed tigers long ago.
However, this is not to say that we can’t use the other side of that survival instinct… fight. Imagine our ancestors running in fear, but also imagine them making a stand, pooling their resources and fighting back, too. That took a heck of a lot of courage. Have you ever seen how huge those tiger fangs were?
That thing called courage. It’s about the fight response, especially using the fight response to fight fear. This doesn’t mean that you will lose your fear. You don’t want that to happen anyway. Like I said, fear is too important to completely go away. Mark Twain wisely put it this way, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
On tomorrow’s Job Search Boot Camp Show (on Saturday, 8/7/10 @ 10am CT), we’ll be talking to a man who has personally overcome challenges in his life by learning how to tap into his fight response – his courage. He’s made it his mission to gather the stories of others who have done the same. Benjy Portnoy, CEO of Courage Incorporated, is joining us to discuss “Finding the Courage to Find Your Dream Job.” You won’t want to miss this show.
Yes, it takes courage to go for the work you love, but you absolutely have the courage it takes deeply rooted in you whether you are aware of it or not. We encourage you to tap in and find it today!
Angela Loëb is an author, speaker and co-owner of Great Occupations. She and her partner, Jay Markunas, help people make successful career transitions through workshops, webclasses, personalized coaching sessions, as well as through The Job Search Boot Camp Show. Find out more at www.greatoccupations.com.
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