It's fantastic to hear that you're now asking questions in lectures!
So basically you overcome fear by acting before your conscious mind allows that fear to paralyse you? Rather simple in theory, but as you pointed out, not always so simple in practice. It also requires that you trust your subconscious to produce thoughts which are safe to act on.
We have fear for a reason, to stop us from doing something which will harm us. But I assume you're only talking about immediately doing things which you have no rational reason to fear, and not, for example, swerving across three lanes of high-speed traffic just to see if you survive (my brain comes up with some scary ideas sometimes...)
The rest of this reply will discuss some academic disagreements with a few of the things you said. I don't intend them to detract from the message of your post.
I don't believe that the conscious mind is the creator of fear; fear is an emotion, not a thought. The conscious mind deals with thoughts and images. I also don't believe the subconscious mind doesn't know fear; I believe fear, as with all other emotions, resides in the subconscious mind.
Why else would it be difficult to do these things we fear? If the subconscious mind didn't know fear, and it is faster than the conscious mind, then we should be able to do anything instinctive without fear. And yet it's that instinctive fear which kept our ancestors alive long enough to ensure we'd be here today.
Though I also guess that by "Our conscious mind is the creator of fear" you were referring to the way we tend to worry about certain things we think might happen, like rejection, and thereby invoke fear. However I do believe that even though the conscious mind might ultimately be responsible, the emotion itself resides in the subconscious mind.
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