[DerekH]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

The underlying process of progressively training yourself to overcome fear is the same. It really doesn't matter what the fear is -- fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of embarrassment, fear of death, etc.

The more fears you systematically overcome, the easier it is to identify and overcome new fears, and the less fearful you become overall.

The courage I developed in my teen years made it easy for me to take risks in my 20s years later. It didn't matter that this courage was developed by doing illegal stuff, and I was applying it to making business decisions. Courage is courage.

Previous acts of courage can also serve as powerful reference experiences. You can tell yourself, "If I was able to do X, then surely I can do Y." Then you take action to do Y, even though it may be something you've never done before.

Oh I definitely agree with that, it was just how you wrote it made it come across differently.