Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not bravery; it looks more like imagination – from Excellent Advice for Living

What a neat way to look at things. Most of us have fear. I have fear all the time. I fear illness as I age (or injury), I fear failure at work, I have fear before new presentations. I do think that bravery is just pushing down your fear and continuing on in the face of it.

I certainly don’t think brave people get rid of fear. Maybe they get used to it and it feels less impactful.

However, I haven’t thought about imagination. Though, I do sometimes confront people’s concerns with advice or a suggestion to think it through. It seems often that people afraid of things have too much imagination. They consider, or assign a likelihood score to things that is too high. Most of the time the worst thing isn’t likely to happen, but we fear it.

I do think that if you imagine positively, then perhaps you have less fear. If you look for the good, the opportunity, then you have less fear.

I I’ve been posting New Words on Fridays from a book I was reading, however, a friend thought they were a little depressing. They should be as they are obscure sorrows. I like them because they make me think.

To counter-balance those, I’m adding in thoughts on advice, mostly from Kevin Kelley’s book. You can read all these posts under the advice tag.