3 Distinctions About Fear For Transformational Edgeworkers
FILTER: If transformation, evolution, and growth aren’t your thing, or if you cling to stability, sameness, and security, this article is not for you.
You believe that fear is bad, that it’s a feeling to avoid, ignore, hide, or overcome, and you’ve spent most of your life finding ways to run from it.
I know, I know, this is a pretty presumptuous way to kick off an article. I’ve generalized. It isn’t fair for me to make such statements about you, reader, who I’ve likely never met and who I may possibly never meet. And yet, if you’ve grown up in modern culture, where the only feeling that’s ok to feel is some neutered, anodyne, energy-less thing called “good,” then you’ve most likely gotten the same thoughtware around fear that we’ve all gotten. Namely, that it’s bad, gets in the way, isn’t helpful, blinds us, makes us chickens, makes us weak, etc., and that if we can avoid it, we should.
The ubiquity of this thoughtware implies that there might be something to it. If on one side we have US presidents telling us we have “nothing to fear but fear itself” and on the other side we have spiritual gurus of every stripe assuring us that fear is just the opposite of love, who are we to raise objections?
