How To Embrace Your Fear Of The Unknown
Life’s best journeys are when you explore the unknown; if you don’t let fear cripple you.
All progress starts in dark rooms. Yet, so many of us fear the dark. As if the dark was going inject its fangs into the back of our necks. Life offers more when we treat uncertainty as a friend — when we embrace it.
Most journeys into the unknown are reversible. “You can walk through, see how it feels, and walk back through to the other side if it isn’t working,” writes Richard Branson.
Embrace uncertainty.
Luck favors the prepared.
“When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts. If you’re not sure what to be alarmed about, everything is alarming,” writes Chris Hadfield.
“In order to stay calm in a high-stress, high-stakes situation, all you really need is knowledge,” says Ozan Varol.
You have to “confront the prospect of failure head-on.” You must “study it, dissect it, tease apart all its components and consequences.” Looking at uncertainty and diagnosing it is when progress is made.
You prepare for the unknown.
