Danger – Risk –

Do You Fear Sleep? Afraid of nightmares? Do you wake up gasping and trying to forget what you’ve just experienced?

Nightmares mean you’re paying attention. Life is scary, but we need to grow, and growth requires we learn to cultivate risk if we are ever to expand and venture outside our comfort zone.

Challenge – Study risk intelligently. No point being afraid of dragons if dragons are only symbolic. No point being “afraid” of “foreigners” if the man telling us to be afraid has a reputation for befriending people and then fleecing them.

Evaluatng Risk :

1. Don’t rely on rumor and innuendo
2. Dangers provably Real
3. Dangers Historically verified by data: “How likely is injury?”
4. Assemble Risk avoidance strategies that have performed well for others in your situation.
5. What exactly is your situation? Quantify.
6. Know who your friends are
7. Be prepared to alter strategy to maximize success and to learn from mistakes

Opportunity – You get to find out who your friends are. Friends want the best for you, but the relationship must be reciprocal. You have each other’s backs. Know the difference between a Team and a Gang. Gangs work to suck power from individual members and concentrate it in one individual. Teams work for the success of all. Coach can’t win if the team doesn’t win.

Surrender is The Worst Alternative – Be alert to the danger of trauma bonding in which we try to pacify attackers by taking their side. Doesn’t work.

Models & Mentors – “Extreme Fear can neither fight nor fly.”
– William Shakespeare

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”

– Mark Twain

“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will return stronger” – Deepak Chopra

“We’re more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than reality.” – Seneca

Meditation –

Haiku: Risk

Regret
Fear of
Fearlessness: Launch
Wise adventures