The feeling of fear plays an important role now that you have a rudimentary understanding of some fears and see how they affect your life. Next, I want to tell you what fear really means. We face so much fear these days that we have to fully realize that the feeling of fear plays a vital role and is not meaningless. Beyond that, our greatest cognitive fear is often a sense of ignorance. What we don't know scares us. It's human nature. When we are afraid to confront our fears, we often reach the opposite conclusion to what we are actually pursuing. So we should try to establish a friendly relationship with fear. Presenting our fear as a "coward" is simply a simplified way of managing fear. In fact, fear has a whole system in your mind that makes it fundamentally different from other feelings. This is why fear can change our attitude towards life. In real situations of danger, this system of handling plays an important role because it is often the difference between life and death. When faced with these existential questions, in a dangerous situation, our brains choose one of three responses in a split second: fight, flee, or freeze. Do you understand these reactions? What's your typical reaction? We all have our own unique reactions and we always act on them. We almost always do, and much depends on our personalities. Resistance means arguing and discussing, avoidance means maintaining a distance, and stasis means we ignore our choice of action and simply stay there and do nothing.

The feeling of fear plays an important role now that you have a rudimentary understanding of some fears and see how they affect your life. Next, I want to tell you what fear really means. We face so much fear these days that we have to fully realize that the feeling of fear plays a vital role and is not meaningless. Beyond that, our greatest cognitive fear is often a sense of ignorance. What we don't know scares us. It's human nature. When we are afraid to confront our fears, we often reach the opposite conclusion to what we are actually pursuing. So we should try to establish a friendly relationship with fear. Presenting our fear as a "coward" is simply a simplified way of managing fear. In fact, fear has a whole system in your mind that makes it fundamentally different from other feelings. This is why fear can change our attitude towards life. In real situations of danger, this system of handling plays an important role because it is often the difference between life and death. When faced with these existential questions, in a dangerous situation, our brains choose one of three responses in a split second: fight, flee, or freeze. Do you understand these reactions? What's your typical reaction? We all have our own unique reactions and we always act on them. We almost always do, and much depends on our personalities. Resistance means arguing and discussing, avoidance means maintaining a distance, and stasis means we ignore our choice of action and simply stay there and do nothing.