December 4th, 2005 by Steve Pavlina 
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StevePavlina.com Personal Development for Smart People podcast #8
This podcast explores the topic of fear. It presents two ways to overcome fear, first by building courage and secondly by shifting your mental model of reality to eliminate the experience of fear entirely. The first method is fairly straightforward. The second one is far more challenging to describe, which accounts for the longer than usual length of this podcast.
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April 9th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
[...] How does one develop the quality of fearlessness? I’ve already talked about this at length on Podcast #8: Overcoming Fear, so if you haven’t already heard that one, give it a listen. I’ve received a lot of positive feedback about it. You won’t necessarily agree with me on all points, which is perfectly fine, but it should get you thinking about alternatives to the current way in which you view reality. The real key is that you must upgrade your understanding of reality from an irrational one that produces irrational fear to a more rational one that produces no fear. On that podcast I present the model that worked for me (which comes from Buddhism), but I don’t believe that’s the only rational model of reality that makes it possible to transcend fear — I’m sure there are others, but I imagine they’re going to share similar qualities. [...]
June 28th, 2006 at 5:24 am
[...] Лучшее определение страха, которое я встречал (здесь) : страх – это “баг”, ошибка в твоей картине мира, конфликт, который необходимо разрешить. Страх – это сигнал, который говорит, что что-то надо изменить для гармоничной и эффективной жизни. И только тебе решать: разобраться со своими страхами, чтобы жить счастливо и воплощать свои намерения, или идти у страха на поводу, забыть про намерения и мечты и реагировать, тратить свои силы на то, чтобы прятать страхи глубоко от себя и от других. [...]
August 4th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
[...] (Is this what Steve would call “synchronicity”? And what would happen if I re-listened to his podcast #8, “Overcoming Fear”? Which says nothing about money, but which I just now happened to notice in the left column of his website.) [...]
August 6th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
[...] Overcoming Fear (audio) [...]
August 9th, 2006 at 9:52 am
[...] J’ai déjà parlé du blog de Steve Pavlina dans un précédent ticket mais je tenais à parler d’un des sujets en particulier qu’il a abordé dans un podcast et cela pour plusieurs raisons : Il est en anglais et tout le monde ne comprend pas l’Anglais, le podcast dure plus de 40 minutes et tout le monde n’a pas 40 minutes pour l’écouter et pour finir parce que ce podcast m’a permis de surpasser une de mes plus grandes peurs… C’est une libre interprétation du podcast de Steve (avec son consentement) qui est sous copyright et je vous invite à l’écouter et visiter son excellent blog. [...]
August 12th, 2006 at 6:41 am
[...] Steve Pavlina’s overcoming fear podcast is one of my all-time favorites. It starts off as expected, but veers off in a surprising direction and ends up being a fantastically lucid explanation of a difficult concept. I agree with his conclusions, here’s why: [...]
September 27th, 2006 at 7:14 am
[...] This is a technique borrowed from Steve Pavlina’s podcast about Overcoming Fear. He said that what if the assumption about there being other people out there is wrong? What if this life is only a dream and those people are you just like the stage and your body are you? Meaning that everything in your awareness is you. So imagining that the people in the audience are making naegative thoughts about you will create that becasue the people in the audience are you. That’s why if you go out there confidentlly and imagine positive thoughts in the audience’s minds, then this will eventually shift into a reality. Even if you don’t believe in this way of life, using it to transcend fear is very valuable. I’ve tried it myself and it’s worked wonderfully. There is no need to imagine the audience in their underwear. I only do that for specific audience members. [...]
October 3rd, 2006 at 7:18 pm
[...] For more information on changing your beliefs see Steve Pavlina’s blog. It describes it far better than I can. See these podcasts specifically. Beliefs Overcoming Fear Beyond Religion The True Nature of Reality [...]
October 22nd, 2006 at 1:27 pm
[...] Many people are motivated by fear to study martial arts. Unfortunately, some of these people advance and begin teaching others before they have mastered their fears. These teachers conduct their classes from what I call a “scarcity mindset”. [...]
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:07 am
[...] Want to overcome a fear? A good place to start might be listening to Steve Pavlina’s podcast, Overcoming Fear. He has an interesting take on it. [...]
November 1st, 2007 at 5:25 am
[...] “If you’re afraid, you’re wrong… The real purpose of fear is to serve as a trigger for growth, it’s to serve as a trigger to expand your consciousness to another level where the fear wll not exist any more… if you avoid your fear you halt your own growth, you hold yourself back.” StevePavlina.com Podcast #008: Overcoming Fear [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 9:59 am
[...] I made the speech and now I’m fine. Looking back at it now, realistically I was fine before, during and after it. When this happens again, which I’m sure it will, that’s what I have to remember. The only way to overcome this fear is to face it head on. Facing it head on and in a rational manner will help the fear–eventually. Not so long ago I listened to a podcast by Steve Pavlina about overcoming fears that I thought was quite good. It was a little out there, but quite good. Photo by hiddedevries [...]
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 am
[...] I think I’ve figured out why geeks love The Matrix so much. Sure, it has lots of cool special effects, and sure, it takes place in a computer (ala Tron) but I think there’s a little more to the geek love that this movie garnered. I think a lot of geeks really got into the idea that reality (as it was presented by the computers that composed The Matrix) was hackable and those who knew that reality was hackable were able to do incredible things with that reality. What more powerful aphrodisiac is there for curious geeks out there than another system to tinker with? This thought occurred to me because of a personal productivity podcast by Steve Pavlina entitled Overcoming Fear. Fear, as Steve defines it, is a bug in our psyche, because there is no real reason why we fear what we fear; it generally hasn’t happened yet, and we can become paralyzed by the thought of “what if”. His solution is to try different “programming”, and his program of choice was to try a Buddhist perspective, in which reality becomes more like a dream, and in that dreamlike reality one can be more curious about how to react to the situations at hand rather than be controlled by a feeling of inevitability. (I’m grossly oversimplifying the podcast and Buddhism here, so if you are curious, check out the podcast for more information). This struck me as the reason why I think The Matrix was so successful with the geek crowd; because of the curiousity of how far the world as presented by the computer could be hacked. This may have been obvious to some before, but it wasn’t so obvious to me until I made the connection. Of course, this may also explain why so many (like myself) were pretty disappointed with the second and third film in the series, regardless of whether or not The Animatrix provided some key insight between the second and third film. Of course the part that REALLY struck me, and made me wish th technology was available today, was the ability to upload new skills directly into the brain. but that’s another topic for another day. [...]
June 7th, 2008 at 7:42 am
[...] and took our dog for his morning walk. I took my iPod and listened to Steve Pavlina’s podcast #8, “Overcoming Fear.” It was a much longer one than usual, and it didn’t seem [...]
October 11th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
[...] fear is to change one’s mindset, to transcend fear. Steve Pavlina talked about this in his podcast about overcoming fear. When I was looking for websites on which to publicize my book, I occasionally froze, because what [...]