Questions On Use Of Fear Of Fuel Your Financial Freedom By Loretta Love Huff

One of the things we fear the most is the loss of or lack of control. Even if we really don’t have control, we like to think we do, and when we lose that sense of control, fear rushes in. For example, an alcoholic will say " I can quit any time; I’m in control." The fear comes when he realizes for the first time that he is an alcoholic and that he is not in control. We all fear uncertainty and the unknown. We arm ourselves against it with candles in the dark, or faith against the uncertainty of death. Then, when we think we’ve conquered our fear, it comes invading our minds again, let in by a smell or a taste, a sound or a thought Fear is always there, just waiting right under the surface, to awaken those memories which frighten us the most.

    Have you ever been intimidated by fear? Fear is in our everyday lives. We tend to let fear control us and how we live our lives. For example, The Salem Witch Trials, which caused over hundreds of people to lose their lives just because they were accused of being witches, along with the Nazi Party and Hitler, who had control over millions of people and killed thousands because they were jewish.

The idea of fear is a fairly simple concept, yet it carries the power to consume and control lives. Fears have stemmed from an inadvertent psychological response to situations deemed threating to one’s personal safety, but have evolved into a complex web of often illogical misconceptions which are able to cloud a person’s judgment and result in situations often worse than originally intended. Fears can be hard to quell, but it has been shown the best way to overcome fears is often to face them, as author James Baldwin asserted when he wrote, “To defend oneself against fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.” Baldwin makes strongly qualified statement, and his idea fears must be faced to

Fear can change people in many ways. Three of them are by making people afraid of change, by making them avoid possible death, and also by staying away from what they fear.

In this TED talk video, the necessity of it is because in general public it is told to ignore fear instead of using it as a tool in life, which prompts us for not being well prepared with having something going on all around us. Additionally, our disposition to accept control and we compose more clear however nonsensical worries as opposed to the more honest yet sensible ones. Karen Thompson Walker uses cases of fear to portray this from standard society today, including critical instances of affairs the world appearances, for instance, moderate ecological change and coronary ailment, getting her point across to her group that she has identified as her audience, which is 21st century Americans.

Karen Thompson Walker’s “What Fear Can Teach Us” indicates how fear influences our everyday actions and

I am sure whoever I ask this question will have the same answer, of course none of us want to live a life being afraid, so what is the answer?

author Howard Thurman talks about the different types fear. When we think about fear many

These fears end up playing a huge part in their lives at work (or at home) and the result of the fears a person has towards the potential outcomes in his or her life is that they could control the whole way that he or she lives his or her life (Berns).

The Cracked Podcast titled A Genealogy of Modern Fear was taken from the comedian Friedrich Nietzsche’s book titled A Genealogy of Morals. This Podcast is hosted by Jack O’Brien alongside Kristi Harrison and Michael Swaim as he shines light on the modern day issues of fear. O’Brien stresses the fact that our fears are out of proportion to the realities of our day to day lives. The entire podcast ultimately focused on three major factors in relation to fear, which include media, society, and culture. He begins by putting our common fears into perspective and addresses the likeliness for those events to occur. We often fail to think about the logical aspect of our fears which burdens us with the fears we have. For example, when you look at the statistics of getting struck by lightning or being in a plane crash it is nearly impossible.

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And probably it is because of that I´m very suspicious of those who claim not being afraid. I think that´s a very clumsy statement. As it has no basis.

Sometimes people like to be scared so that they can prove to themselves that they can handle it. “There is a great sense of satisfaction when we

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