Being fearless versus learning to control your fears?
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Re: Being fearless versus learning to control your fears?
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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Learning to control your fears = overcoming the urge to run and hide.
Can anyone be truly fearless? Yes. Mostly people who are unaware or who don’t care about the consequences of their actions.
I think what Tris means by ‘half of bravery is perspective’ is that it takes some courage to realize someone else’s point of view about a certain issue, hearing them out, and making a decision based on all available information rather than on emotion and ‘what would be most brave’.
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I think that all fear evolves from the fear of death. Our ego wants to stamp it's mark on the world and the idea of death is the scariest thing because ego believes that to die is to no longer exist.
I think that learning to control fear, therefore, is learning to control fear of death. Becoming spirtual will do that. Buddha for example was fearless. He was fearless because he knew there is not really any such thing as death. When you're no longer scared of death there's no more reason to be scared of heights or spiders etc... Have you ever met anyone that has had a near death experience? They have this strange calm aura about them. And they say they are no longer scared of death.
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I think this sums it all up. If a lion is coming at you, it would be ridiculous to be calm and wait for it to rip you apart. In the dauntless training, rather than trying to become fearless, they should've learned to a) control the fear or b) turn it into adrenaline and channel it.
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"Half of bravery is perspective" means to be brave you have to look at the situation in a way that gives you the ability to overcome your fear.
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