Fear
What it is telling youSomething ahead matters, and it deserves your courage rather than your retreat.
How He Sees It.
Eric has named his biggest fear out loud more than once, and it kept changing. First it was failure, then regret, then missed opportunities. Each time, looking closer took the fear apart: failure turned out to be room to grow, and regret turned out to be the past.
What stayed is the way he reads the feeling itself. Fear points at something. It can be warning you away from a bad idea, or it can be standing in front of the thing you most want to do. Either way, it is information, and the choice of what to do with it is still yours.
On Fear, Word for Word.
Each line links to the moment it was said or written.
“Fear might see a potential threat and bring it to your attention so you can decide whether to turn away because it is a bad idea, or approach it with courage.”
“I’m no longer afraid of missing opportunities. I’m afraid of allowing those missed opportunities to make me miss more.”
“In facing your fears and doubts, you will gain respect for yourself and grow from it.”
What He Does With It.
Names the fear, then asks what it is really about. Failure, looked at closely, became a lesson rather than a threat.
Episode 6: Social Pressure, Receiving Advice, and My Biggest FearsUses a five second rule for action, from his conversation with Annie Lai: make a move toward the scary thing within five seconds, before doubt has time to activate.
Chow’s Choice: Self Improvement and Self LoveMoves fast in the small things and stays patient in the big ones: micro speed, macro patience.
Episode 6: Social Pressure, Receiving Advice, and My Biggest Fears