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Completely agreed- Albert Einstein is one of my heroes, and he worked to be in history books.

I definitely agree that resourcefulness is more important than resources. I have become poorer over the years due to some extreme life circumstances; however, I have grown much more resourceful. I am willing to take classes, read, learn anything to improve my life. I am willing to work odd shifts to pay down my credit cards. However, I am utilizing my fear of high interest rates to motivate me

Its elaborates the drawbacks about fear and how it affect the life. it deeply potrays the current problem that we find in every one.

Quite agreed with your point, thnkx for this post, almost every person who reds it will agreed that fear is the basic problem in any action

I agree! I would like to ad that the reason I see a a lot of people not living up to their potential is that they are afraid of not being the person they think they are. I mean that people may sit around, work a dead end job and never really be out going because they have fear they wont be interesting.

Fear as a factor driving everything tht a person does stands valid as it brings out the survival instincts to its very best. Means justifies the end therefore resourcefulness is more important than resources.

agreed, without fear, people probably wouldn’t do a lot of the things that they already don’t want to do anyway. you hit the nail on the head.

@Katie – you make a good point – not ALL fear is bad fear, as it can be a motivator to do something positive {like pay down high-interest debt}. Too many people use it as a reason to NOT do something positive, and that’s a shame.

@ Pratt, @ Lauren, @ Zia – Thanks!

This is so true. A big one I see is the lack of support. People are very afraid of going “against the grain” and doing something that is different. Unfortunantly, we probably miss out on some great ideas as a result.

Although I agree that fear often prevents people from reaching their full potential, I often find myself thinking that not enough people are fearful nowadays. If people were fearful enough to take stock of all the costs and benefits of their actions, we would not have so many gamblers, debtors, and race-car drivers in the world today. And despite my fondness for NASCAR, I think that we would all be better off if that were the case.

Fear really hinders a lot of people to attain success. Even great people have fears that hinders them. However, it is through facing these fears that we learn how to stand up and achieve success.

Definitely agree. I, myself have always wanted to start my own business, but I FEAR it won’t work out, I FEAR that i will lose money, and I FEAR that i don’t have enough support. I just can”t seem to shake it off…

Fear gives politicians ammunition to get their way by instilling fear in voters, whether the fear is legitimate or not. We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

It is a nice post on fear. If we have this fear we can do things correctly. Every one has a fear of some thing or some people, for example a worker may have fear of his boss that is why he do the work perfectly.Fear is one of the important factor to achieve or win our goals.

Fear is a factor only if that person knows fear, but what about those few who have no idea what that word, that feeling means. Ones without anything to loose. Other than that the majority can either thrive of off the concept of fear or become cripple by it.

I love the part about controlling your fear and not letting fear control you! That is so true and its something we could all benefit from. After all, “there is nothing to fear but fear itself”, right?

I completely agree with the fact that fear hinders a person from reaching his/her goals,but I also believe that if we are really bent upon achieving our goals we will fight our fears and not allow them to act as a hurdle in our path.

I think that fear is a very common part of modern society. People are often afraid to take action, for fear of repercussions. It’s hard to work through the fear and get what you need to get done sometimes. It’s always worth it though.

I completely agree with what is written in the article. It truly potrays the current problem that we find in everyone.

@ashika – awesome, thanks.

@Triskelonn – I agree, I think it’s a very common aspect of society, as well as humanity. Totally worth overcoming.

@bivi128 – Correct – there’s a lot to be said for old-fashioned stubbornness

I think thats one of my worst weaknesses is fear. No one wants to fail at anything.

Agreed.. for achieving something extraordinary one should not require an extraordinary background.

This is a great point, I am sitting here paralyzed by fear to start a project that I have dreamed about for quite awhile. Money is part of it but I can make it work, primarily though I am just afraid of failing! I need to just jump in and make my own luck!

I agree with hat you’re saying….but sometimes fear is good because it helps prevent us from doing things that we will regret later in life. But yes, debilitating fear- NEVER GOOD.

I agree. For me, fear is an emotional response to threats and danger. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of pain. But in other side, it can be a good motivating tool. Not all fear is to be feared of. Lets face it off.

I totally agree- fear can be a great motivating factor, but can also work against productivity as well. Fear can also be a vicious cycle– sometimes you need to be bold and take risks to move forward.

This article is very useful for me because i am related with this business. and We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

@Liz – True, when used correctly, fear can be a motivator to take positive action. The problem is that too many people use it as a reason to take zero action >>> Bad.

@Nicole – You know exactly what you need to do. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve failed at something – fail way more times than I succeed. But that’s alright – successful people know they only need a few winners in order to really hit a home run. Reminds me of a joke – “what do you call a millionaire restaurant owner with 7 previously-failed businesses? Answer – a millionaire”.

I agree the comments, a man who have no fear, people probably wouldn’t do everything that they already don’t want to do anyway.

I agree with what you are saying. Fear does govern alot of what we do in our lives. It affects our purchases and how we invest our money.

I try to beat fear by thinking of every outcome as positive. Even so called ‘failure’ presents you with an experience and knowledge not to repeat your actions.

I think we all have a fear of failure, a fear of rejection. And all you have to do is turn on any news channel and you\’ll find more things we need to fear. I think the hardest thing to do is push aside the fear and take that first step. But once you do that, who knows, right? If you fail, at least you tried. Seems to me that hard work and perseverance might be the key.

It\’s true that fear is the prime motivator which makes us do things that we would not do otherwise. We follow the traffic rules out of fear of punishment or fine. In the absence of fear, the life would be chaotic.

I agree with the comments stating that fear can be the motivation you need to push yourself but I don’t think it’s strong enough motivation to make you do something great. Fear will motivate you to do just enough to avoid something negative but you have to be self motivated to go beyond the minimum.

Fear is the root causes for all the malices in the invidual to grow higher in the life.

Haha, I can think of a few other things to tell my future mother-in-law, but I won\’t put those in writing. Yeah, I didn\’t realize how much fear affected many of my decisions, both small and large decisions.

@mlw0320 – be careful now with inlaws, they can be dangerous

@Devanathan – that’s an interesting thought – how do you handle that to grow?

@Laurem – I agree, fear can’t really inspire you to do anything great. But it can inspire you to take measured action from losing something great.

I agree….fear is a great motivator. really it is the basis of all motivation.
Do well in school because your scared of not getting a good job etc

It depends on the person how he or she reacts to the fear. If someone has positive attitude that outcome from fear will be positive and with negative attitude the outcome will be negative only. For example if you have fear of having car accident than you can never drive on freeway.

Very humerous post with very good points. I wonder, though, how do you keep the fear from winning? Sometimes it seems stronger than we are.

I agree mostly – many people use aspects of fear when dealing with kids because it is easy, traditional and they usually think it works. Being a teacher, we have to walk this fine line and I spend a lot of time trying to get students to overcome their fears so they can be successful.

I completely agree with the above point made.
Fear is one of the drawback in achieveing things.

@angela – Gr8 question! Thing is, it is very difficult to self-regulate an emotion as powerful as fear. In fact, it’s nearly impossible. Therefore, I’d recommend you regulate the ACTIONS you take. In other words, you may be scared to do something, but you’re probably not going to eliminate the emotion outright. But by regulating the action and just “doing it”, you can then begin the process of diminishing and finally regulating the emotion.

Ver rightly said. Fear is the only word one should fear about.

Resource or resourcefullness, mind or mindset.. what is more important? As rightly said, later one is more important…

Fear of death is more powerful than death itself. Entire underworld and terrorism work on that principle.

You are so right. Fear is the one thing that gets me up in the morning. My alarm is useless, really. It is the fear of missing the morning train to work and the consequences of being late that really get me up super early every day. I find fears most prominent in our society to be fear of success, and fear of failure.

This is so true. That\’s why right before a really big storm the grocery store is packed!

I completely agree about not letting fear make every decision for you. The Life of Pi said it best “fear is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”

Fear is propogated by media. it’s really weird, but feal mongering stores “sell papers” and force viewers. It’s unfortunate that it takes something terrible, or fear inducing to get people to watch. it’s hard to know if it’s the media’s fault, or just the way humans are conditioned.

While what you say is true, I can\’t agree. I take it that you want us to not be afraid of taking chances and perhaps living a life free of fear would allow each of us to blossom. There are a wealth of possibilities, roads we do not travel, that we refuse because we are afraid.
However, fear can drive us. I fear the consequences of inaction… not having the money to take care of myself. I fear not living up to my commitments, which drives me to ensure that I do.
Resourcefulness does not dispel fear. It is a method for dealing with it that makes us more productive, and stronger. It\’s seeking out new information, changing your paradigm, but most of all, it\’s Getting up off your ass and Doing Something about your Fear. I feel like that\’s what your blog doesn\’t say that\’s really important.

Btw: The spacing and color makes your blog somewhat difficult to read.

Fear is the one emotion that can paralize a person. We are most afraid of stopping out of our comfort zone for fear of rejection, ridicule and loss.

@Sue – sad, but true.

@ SunnyQ – you are basically encouraging action – which is what I was encouraging. Yes, you can say “I want results, so I take action” or “I don’t want to NOT get results, so I take action”. The but the end result is the same – ACTION. So I’m not seeing how you can read that post and think we are actually disagreeing. And I use color changes to emphasize different points. Sorry if you don’t dig ‘em, but I do

@ Kelly – I’ve noticed the exact same thing!

this is really helpful information.

Fear does, quite literally, one’s erode humanity. That signal coming from the mid-brain(a part of the brain we share with reptiles) is a basic survival mechanism that speeds up reaction time and forces us to decisive in an emergency. When it invades the higher parts of our brain it interferes with rational decision-making. That’s not good. Put fear in its place. It’s hype in the gut, nothing more.

This is so true. Fear is the main reason why someone would procrastinate things. I sometimes go through these same emotions.

I agree with whatever is mentioned in the article to a great extent. It projects the issues that we find with everyone these days.I have realised it myself and can feel the essence of the writing.

@kgosar – how appropriate! Check this out on procrasterbation – http://www.hbsaonline.com/blog/main-content/stress-relief-technique-for-the-habitual-procrastinating-time-waster

Nice article….noone should let fear keep them from their dreams or goals in life.

I completely agree with what is explained in the blog about the topic, “fear”. It is true that resourcefulness is more important than resources. There are lot of people not living up to their potential and i think that the reason is because they are afraid of not being the person they think they are. However, it is through facing these fears that we learn how to stand up and achieve success. It is such a great post!

well said,I also have some fears & we always have some excuses.By doing this we actually make fool of ourselves.I really liked the sentence”don’t let Fear Control you”.

Yeah definitely that is right. When you are in fear your brain will not work and anything that you do at that time will get failed.

Its very true that fear makes us do things in right time, right mode and right way. Its fear for which we fear and do things very often. If a human does not have fear upon anything, then i am not sure that he will be a good human for the society. I fear a lot and think that i do things properly…

i agree with this post.If we dont have fear about anything we wont do anything and all the things to be done will be left as not done and we will become lazy.The fear is the thing that leads our life in a gud or bad manner

Fear many times results in sever loss, with fear man sometimes make mistake to which he/she had done properly before. We should not work with fear but with responsiblity

This articel is really interesting and useful to read it because it tells us about the fear that we come across in our life, and it clearly says us the causes that we come across due to it it is a very useful articel that every one has to read it.

This is a good blog on our fears. I fear a lot of things, darkness being the first on the list

Fear! This is so right… It was mentioned on an episode of House. Not so much pain, heartache, abandonment etc but the fear of those things makes peoples decisions for them.

I agree. people probably wouldn’t do a lot of the things that they already don’t want to do without fear. you are totally correct in this aspect. well read!

Wow! Strongly said and I could not agree more. I do believe that fear is made up from the media and we allow it to control our lives.

I agree 100%. It is fear that drives us, it is our “negative reinforcement” of life, as a psychologist would put it. Why do we work? We FEAR we will not have enough money to live. Why do we go to school? We FEAR we won’t be able to get a decent living without a good education. Why do we discriminate against those unlike us? We FEAR the unknown. It is fear that drives our daily lives and it’s not healthy. Like in the movie “Yes Man,” you may fear millions of things, but until you experience them, you will never know how truly great they are!

I agree to that 100percent of the people have fear in doing someteew but i feel that if they overcome that fear then they can acieve whatever they need in tife without any difficulty,because of this they tend to lose their self confidefnce which stops them from acheiving their goal which they might have set if u have selfcon then u can overcome the fear. This article cleares states about the fear.

Great post! I know I always have so many people that say things to me like “Isn’t that too risky for you to do? Shouldn’t you just…?” No way! I try to be smart about them, but there are a lot of risks that will pay off if you can get over your fear of trying.

I think this is the maximum way anyone can easily describe about fear. This blog clearly explains about fear and how it is controlling a human being.But in some cases fear is accepted positive.Also we should control fear,and it should not control us.

” FEAR ” makes people to behave either in right way or wrong way…..
If we does the things said in the blog correctly , then we can live with freedom by doing things on our interests…..
If we didn’t do the things said in the blog, fear originates in us automatically and we cannot do things with freedom or with interests…

Some people does things because of fear, but the thing they done will not be complete or done with interest…. due to that they may lost something
Without fear we can do things correctly and in fulfilled manner , so that there will not be any problems occuring to us………..

Eventhough the explanations given are worthy and boost the morale, one cannot conclude that there is a possibility of a windfall over night.To succeed one can work hard tirelessly.

I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT…………
‘IF YOU RISK NOTHING,YOU RISK EVERYTHING’ and as usual fear is always associated with risk.
Fear and Anger are probably two important but possible destructive feeling in human being. I think,we must find the route cause of these two feelings and try to overcome it.

The post is very detailed and useful. As said, fear is the one which cause a man to stop himself from doing something. some times it saves and some times it spoils.
A nice article

There is a smart saying: “you have nothing to fear about, but fear”. And it`s true. The fear is the only thing standing in your way.

It’s a nice article about fear. After reading this i really got inspired.I too have lot of fears about my future.

it is really very inspiring.i like the way to motivate.the theme of this article is really impressed.

It truly explains the general action taken by the people…. the article is great and motivates to do something different , rather than getting scared.!!!