Michelle 'Mace' Curran

But that's the primal fear that kept us alive back in primitive times where we're worried about tigers and bushes.

But when we let that propagate to every part of our life in modern society where there's no saber tooth tigers, that is where it just gets in the way and it holds us back.

And so giving people tools where they recognize the root of the fear, they can actually zoom out and look at what would this look like?

So say you have a big opportunity come up and you feel that excitement and then you immediately feel that fear.

because you know it's a stretch for you.

You know you're going to have to learn.

You know you might fail.

And I imagine it like this teeter-totter.

It's this scale, like the IRS scale or the one that's on the dollar, right?

Where you're like, does the fear outweigh the rewards?

So I'm like, write down what the worst case scenario is.

Like, what are you so afraid of?

And oftentimes, if you get it out of your head, onto paper, or even better, you talk to someone else about it,

right there, it makes it pretty obvious that it's not as big of a deal as you thought it was when you were just spiraling on it.

So that can be enough right there.

But then if it is still a factor, and the worst case is really bad, now you're like, okay, if that does happen, what can I have planned?

What tools do I have?

How can I prepare to be able to handle it?

And like we would do that for Air Force missions all the time, right?

Like say our intelligence is bad and this goes south completely.