Brain Food: Action Reduces Fear
“The way you speak to yourself, the way you walk, the way you carry your shoulders matters. I got a fabulous opportunity to interview one of Spain’s most famous bullfighters, Martín Vázquez. I wanted to know how a matador controls fear when they know that there’s this massive bull who is going to do everything possible to kill them, and to subdue... See more
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Dr. Jim Loehr, one of the world’s foremost experts on mental toughness and performance psychology, offers a powerful story on fear:
“The way you speak to yourself, the way you walk, the way you carry your shoulders matters. I got a fabulous opportunity to interview one of Spain’s most famous bullfighters, Martín Vázquez. I wanted to know how a... See more
“The way you speak to yourself, the way you walk, the way you carry your shoulders matters. I got a fabulous opportunity to interview one of Spain’s most famous bullfighters, Martín Vázquez. I wanted to know how a... See more
“The secret sauce of confidence is it's linked to action. It's linked to the action systems in the brain. It's a belief that has two components. One is that you can do something in a particular domain, And the second thing is that if you do that thing, the outcome you want is more likely to happen. So that's the can-do and can happen. Confidence is
... See moreTo act in the face of the unknown brings up a primal fear in most of us. You can overcome this fear if you learn to look at action in a new way. Here are three principles that make the process of taking action more effective.