This will kill your fear and make you wildly successful

The beauty is that unless you outstep your comfort limit, you’re not going to improve. Many incredible people have said that all progress takes place outside the boundaries of our comfort area, on risky terrains.

The resistance in us, triggered from our lizard brain, dissuades us from venturing out in risky situations (public speaking, tendering that proposal, launching a business, having a tough talk) because it sees that groundless fabric of fear from miles and miles away. Unable to gauge the gravity of the risk, it treats it as if it were life-threatening, and hence the resistance.

This resistance once upon a time was important. The thing is that now things have changed – i.e. now we don’t have that many life-threatening situations as before – but the resistance operates in the same way.

And the remarkable thing is that this resistance isn’t merely a concept. It has its physical, material existence, and as I said above, is known as the lizard brain.

When we suddenly get alarm on hearing a terribly loud sound, it’s due to our lizard brain, because since primitive times it’s trained to get alarm, to get alert, to feel scared, to get angry and so on. The moment it hears a loud sound, it senses a danger and instantly readies itself for fight or flight response.

It’s not able to distinguish between success and survival. It’s also not able to distinguish between little-scale risk and life-threatening situations.

Obviously, if we’re fired from our job, it’s not going to be a threat on our life. we can hop around a bit in the market and find a fresh job.

Or, we can also begin our own venture and keep ourselves healthy and running.

There’re numerous ways that we can earn our daily bread even if we’re fired from our job, but the resistance inside us – this lizard brain – isn’t able to gauge the gravity of this problem. It highly overestimates it and consequently we’re sometimes forced to depression, anxiety or even are persuaded to take other drastic measures.

It’s here where our logical mind comes into play. If it gets successful in convincing the lizard brain that everything is fine at the helm, we navigate our way out of the troubled waters.

But if it fails?

We presume those troubled waters to be a great tempest and resultantly are subjected to suffer much more than we actually should have been.

So throughout our entire lives we’re tasked at taming our lizard brain. We go through this inner conflict, and if our logical mind takes over our lizard brain more often, we get super successful.

Therefore the mantra to success is weigh the risk, assess that you’re not blowing it out of proportions, take measures to counter it, and then go forth. Being courageous doesn’t mean that you become reckless and being logical doesn’t mean that you become a coward – the fine line is right in the middle.