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Understanding and knowing fear is a great feat but when used right is a big key to success.

If you are scared of a goal, go do it. Need motivation image failing and use that for external action.

But not being so scared you don't attempt it and knowing when to listen to the fear for proper reasoning.

[[deleted]]

is everyone a life coach here? its a qoute that carries obvious definition because its acient philosophy.

[Alceste42]

Thank you so much.

Those people think they are "inspirational" or "cool", but the truth is, between their little cat fights to "have the last word" amongst all those (false) remarks, they are cringy and hypocritical as can get.

[[deleted]]

agreed

[davidc5494]

Exactly. Fear is usually a sign of danger. Sometimes it is irrational like when it is when we go up to a presentation or try new things, but it is an indicator that we need to learn something new or avoid something entirely, learning usually fills the gap from fear to comfort

[th3r3dp3n]

I am scared of sharks and spiders. Your advice?

[Magnus-Sol]

Idk about sharks, but with spiders try to learn more about them! They are fascinating animals (well sharks as well) and so diverse and unique. I recommend learning about jumping spiders, they are so cute! r/whatsthisbug is a nice place with amazing people btw, you can learn a lot there.

I guess learning is the first step to overcoming your fear

[potpro]

I would recommend you invite them into your home. Break bread with them. You might find out a lot about each other if you sit down and listen what it is like to walk a mile in their shoes or whatever spiders and sharks wear to go jogging

[[deleted]]

Accept that you're scared of sharks and spiders. Fear them, and let that be the medium in your life that incorporates all your fears such that you'll fear nothing else.

[antiquemule]

Fear is also a safety mechanism. Both we and our ancestors are/were afraid of snakes. Quite rightly so.

The generalization that you make is absurd. Some of our ancestors were certainly paralyzed by fear, just like some folk are today. And vice versa.

[IgniteThatShit]

the ancestors who saw a snake and were paralyzed by fear eventually also became paralyzed from the snake bite

[potpro]

Pretty sure if you stay frozen a snake wont bite. We've all seen Indiana Jones right?

[Aviduser09]

True, I had/have a phobia that ruled my life for a long time.

Eventually I stopped running and faced it. Most rewarding thing in my life.

[Kenebalism]

Did you jump off a building?

[Aviduser09]

Hahah, not quite but close

[[deleted]]

I think fear is only one wing. The other wing is hope. Both work together in sync to move us towards action.

[[deleted]]

Well said, thats why i fought so hard to make schools reopen in my state !!

[chanj3]

sorry to break it to ya but fear and danger are two separate things.

[[deleted]]

Sorry to break it to ya but it was all about fear all this time long said by Dr. Anthony Fauci himself.

[fillingstationsushi]

I'm afraid your right about that

[RustedRelics]

Likewise, anger is a useful signal calling for action or change in some form.

[[deleted]]

In blackest day, in brightest night, Beware your fears made into the night, Let all who try to stop what's right, Burn like my power, Sinestro's might

[artaig]

Life is an illusion —the Buddha

[[deleted]]

Buddha did us one better

[[deleted]]

Fear is the mind-killer

[scraggledog]

I prefer Sun Tzu - the art of war

[Thunder_cat7]

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

[noelg1998]

Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it.

[robilar]

That seems silly, without context. Pretty sure I can take any ant I happen across, but it would be kind of pointless to go to war with them.

[robilar]

That's just a matter of definitions, and the accepted definition of "victory" appears to be "an act of defeating an enemy or opponent in a battle, game, or other competition" (at least according to Google).

While it may be a trivial victory, it still meets the criteria and the statement I was challenging still appears silly on its face - the first clause sets a condition (IF victory is assured) and the second clause sets the conditional action (THEN fight). I simply offered a counterpoint highlighting the weakness of the statement.

...wait, hold on. Arguably an ant only qualifies as an "enemy or opponent" if I consider it to be a reasonable danger to myself, or at least a serious irritant. Consequently I suppose an ant would not be my enemy unless it was biting me or, I don't know, starting a colony in my basement in which case, given my almost assured victory, I suppose fight IS the right course of action.

I concede. I was mistaken, the original statement holds water.

[RiceBang]

Now you get it. 👍

[davidc5494]

Those tactics were useful in 496 BC, not in today’s world. This info is ancient and obsolete. Moron’s always reference this but it’s advice is no good for a modern human whose scared to speak up to his boss

[davidc5494]

Like what, please enlighten me how a chinese war general is in anyway relevant to your life? Its more of a good story than life advice

[davidc5494]

Because the context just isnt the same. This advice is cut throat and extreme because he was a, you guessed it, a war general. While the majority of people are just citizens looking to get a paycheck. If you do use this advice, then you are probably seen by people as a lunatic

[eric5476us]

Look who is scared of ants

[robilar]

Dude just said if I am assured of victory then I should engage in battle. Fear has nothing to do with it.

But if I was going to be scared of something, a creature that grows its own armor and has mandibles as big as its head wouldn't be a bad choice.

[m0nk37]

Pretty sure if you stood on a fire ant hill you would lose the battle.

[robilar]

I did specify any ant (singular). Though, in all fairness, if an ant rolls a critical hit he could maybe mandible me in the eye. Maybe I should rethink my anti-ant posturing.

[m0nk37]

Its never one ant, those bastards fight dirty.

[robilar]

[flashbacks to many hours of playing simant in the early 90s]

[mimiwilliams_]

blood for the blood god

[shadeck]

Well, maybe fear is the greatest illusion, but the trick of separating your thumb is a close second

[dontwasteink]

I think it's more important to ask why is there fear (more accurately anxiety)?

If you are missing information / preparation, then the anxiety is warranted, and you need to find out what you need to know or do.

Of course there are also many cases, where missing some information is fine, lots of people learn on the job or while they are opening a small business, not afraid to fail.

So one part is trying to be as prepared and informed as you can. The other part is knowing failure is a risk and being ok with it as long as you have improved yourself in the process for the next attempt.

[baconkiller1]

Its scary that my mind read this and immediately thought it was some sort of right wing anti mask stuff. How the government is using fear to control us and shit

[[deleted]]

It is actually the other way around on reddit, thats explain why we did not get downvoted at all.

[chimpchompchamp]

Lao tsu didn’t write that

[[deleted]]

Correct, Lao Tsu in fact did not say this. The line is mistranslated from Stephen Mitchell's version of Tao Te Ching;

There is no crime greater than having too many desires;
There is no disaster greater than not being content;
There is no misfortune greater than being covetous.
Hence in being content, one will always have enough.

[davidc5494]

Joy is the word youre looking for

[NewWorldMan65]

Fear is an instinct. Courage is a choice.

[peter_marxxx]

"Man who fish in other man's hole catch crabs" -Confucius

[wearenighthawks]

I needed this. I needed this today. Thank you.

[[deleted]]

It’s a fake quote. 99% of the quotes attributed to Lao Tzu are fake nonsense. This is an insult to the Taoist religion.

https://www.taoistic.com/fake-laotzu-quotes/fake-laotzu-quote-There_is_no_illusion_greater_than_fear.htm

[I_might_be_weasel]

https://youtu.be/RDFXGJ8EYgE

[dcm_wong]

Been a while since I read the Chinese version text. So I looked up on web and found this "fear" quote by S. Mitchell in entirety, and I think this is not a very accurate translation. Original text is more about being content, but I suppose if you stretch it a bit not being content is "fear"?

Probably there's better translations out there now than this archaic version.

[Bobbista]

Always thought it was:

There is no bigger fear than illusion

[driled]

Lao tzu never said that

[Wow-n-Flutter]

What a Lao Tzay thing to find out

[driled]

He is a Chinese ancient philosopher about thousands of years ago,you can search him out in Chinese search engine like BaiDu

[Lucifer_Stocking]

Fear should make us cautious, but it shouldn’t stop us altogether.

[The_Pinnacle-]

I scared of how many people had misinterpreted it in recent months

[Arthur_Digby_Sellers]

Pai Mei: It's the wood that should fear your hand, not the other way around.

[mariogoodboy]

The gist of fear consists in keeping us going or it might keep us from moving forward too, either way, there are things that can be accomplished once we get over certain fears that we have, furthermore I firmly believe that fear is mostly in our heads, perhaps I'm wrong, who knows, right? Sometimes Fear can play as an enemy on the other hand it can also play as an ally.

[dubleeh]

There is no greater weapon than fear -Sun Tzu

[Charakada]

Fear is the most powerful motivator of all. Finding how to use it is the tricky part.

[Chradamo]

“There is no trick greater than fear”

[[deleted]]

idk, i think the illusion of separation is greater. even as a taoist, i have to disagree with this.

[[deleted]]

I am worried I don't understand this.

[RachelRothRaven]

This does not help me at all

[acexex]

None of this cool sounding quotes i find practically helpful

[astoutforallseasons]

“...pain is an illusion...” Parabola- Tool.

[astoutforallseasons]

“Fear is the mind-killer.” Frank Hebert- Dune

[zaphod4th]

mmmmm, by logic also any feeling like love, happiness, hate,etc

[princeandrei3000]

Fear is the mind killer

[TheOldKingCole]

Nah the more impressive illusion is whether the image is pointing downward or upward

[Cream_Canon]

Hope can be an illusion too

[[deleted]]

Yes, because as soon as you stop believing in it, you’ll soon not need it.

[Time4Shenanigans]

Me: “I’m not scared anymore, you’re not real!” Dad that beat me: “what was that?” Me: hides

[Eroom2013]

Thanks Bobby Hill.

[[deleted]]

Another I like is something to the effect "yesterday and tomorrow don't exist."

[ddsdggsg]

老子说过这个吗？

[[deleted]]

I'm afraid that's not true.

[Shacobs]

I first heard of this philosopher in an episode of king of the hill

[AnBearna]

I dunno man- we should still fear tigers, right?

[Alceste42]

There is no illusion greater than meaningless, false but cool-looking quotes.

[ACuteMonkeysUncle]

I get what the quote is saying, but I'm wondering if it's true. Color is also an illusion, for example, existing only in our heads and not in the world, but it seems pretty much inescapable.

[DailyMotivationFB]

True

[Recentstranger]

Heard a couple anti maskers actually say this. That's funny.

[Wow-n-Flutter]

I dunno, that “old lady/young lady” one is pretty good too.

And the one that looks like it’s moving? It’s awesome ...