What Am I Afraid Of?

Rui Zhi Dong
1 min readJan 6, 2020
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You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone — Roy T. Bennett

Learn to get uncomfortable. Sit with the feeling instead of distracting yourself. Ask yourself, What Am I Afraid Of?

Dig deep and explore it. What’s the source of your fear? The deeper the feeling of discomfort, the more there is to discover in the process. Write your unfiltered thoughts down, without judgement or attachment to the thoughts.

Sometimes it’s the fear of telling the truth because you might end up hurting someone. Or fear of getting up on stage and speaking and being exposed as a fraud. Or fear of losing a friend. Or fear of being alone.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do — Henry Ford

Process the thing that makes you afraid and do the things that scare you the most.

Find them by asking yourself, What Am I Afraid Of?

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Rui Zhi Dong

Entrepreneur and Writer. Working on book, Thinking Questions. Influenced by Charlie Munger, Nassim Taleb, Ray Dalio, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero.