How to deal with fear
Bolanle Austen-Peters talks, among other things, on how to deal with fear in her conversation on #WithChude.
She said:
Fear is natural. As human beings, our DNA is to be fearful when we are in unfamiliar terrain. But what you do to counter fear is to develop yourself.
That’s what I keep telling my children always. For me, the gift of spirituality is that it allows you confront fear, knowing that at the end of the day, there is only one outcome, everyone is going to die.
I say to myself, ‘the end is this, everything in between is what you choose to write, so let us face that fear’, because otherwise, you will be crippled. And if you are crippled by fear, you won’t go far in life.
Every time you take on a new venture, the human mind will want to be afraid, but you counter it with what you have deposited in yourself. [You can remind yourself that] this is another moment in time, it will pass. Therefore, you just have to make things work for yourself.
That is what I do, all the time.
Quote for the day
“Don’t incentivise fear in your life. Don’t organise your life to produce and run on fear.”
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