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Mental Health Living With/out Fear: The Power of Being a Rational Optimist By Jason Powers, MD Chief Medical Officer Promises Austin
love if you just put fear aside — at least that’s what you’ll find in the self-help section and in blogs — but here is a little different view on fear and passion and life.
Living a Passionate Life, Devoid of Fear uch has been written on the Truth be told, I started out subject of fear and how it impedes intending to write a similar blog success. Go to the self-help section of post. I interviewed CEOs and COOs, any bookstore and you’ll find thousands executive vice presidents, regional vice of pages dedicated to the idea that if you presidents and professional athletes. “throw your fears aside you will shine I talked with two clients I coach on like a burning star and achieve your personal development, a practice that goals.” According to popular literature, focuses largely on escaping the clutches fear tells us “wait a minute you can’t do of fear and entering “the zone,” where that, it’s never been done” or “you’re one can achieve optimal performance. not good enough” or “you don’t have I also interviewed a close friend who to the resources” or “now is not the time.” me is an exemplar of living a passionate Author Samuel Johnson said, life, seemingly devoid of fear. “Nothing will ever be attempted if When I was younger, I was all possible objections must first be fortunate enough to be part of a tightly overcome.” Fear will drown your passion knit group of best friends. There were and halt your momentum before any five of us and we would dream about dream has a chance to become reality. what our futures would be like. All but Even love is letting go of fear (there’s one of us wanted to change the world a book by that title). You can achieve in our own way, to make it better than power, success, a financial windfall and the way we found it, to help people
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and not least of all to be wealthy and successful professionally. But my friend Stan didn’t participate in that type of future planning. He said he hoped he had a modest house and had “enough,” and we would laugh at him. So I asked Stan recently what he is passionate about and how he handles fear and stress. Although he appears to be devoid of the types of fear-induced neuroses, let’s call them, that afflict so
many of us, he says he does feel stress related to the things that are important to him. It’s just that his passion isn’t about attaining great wealth and prestige and the accoutrements of success. To him, achievement is measured differently. “I don’t want to be successful the way other people are professionally and I am not jealous of see Mental Health page 17
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