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1. Afraid Of Something?

2. Imagine going on a diet.

3. You read a couple of books and came
up with a plan.

4. You went shopping and carefully
bought the right foods.

5. So you knew that when you ate the
right things, in the right amounts, it
would be physically impossible to not
lose weight.

6. Only when you ate your food, you
didn't do it at home.

7. You ate it at the food court in the mall.

8. Or at your favorite restaurant.

9. Surrounded by friends who were
chowing down like no tomorrow.

10. Could you do it?

11. I know I couldn't!

12. This is the problem with a lot of our
instincts.

13. When they are fired up, it's pretty
impossible to ignore them.

14. That's why humans have survived all
these years.

15. If our instincts were super easy to
ignore (meaning that losing weight
was super easy and didn't require a lot
of willpower) then we would have died
out a long time ago.

16. There's even a few disease that
somehow "turn off" the eating
instinct.

17. They don't feel compelled to eat, so
they don't.

18. And they starve to death. Or they
would without medical intervention.

19. Quickly pulling back from pain is
another instinct.

20. Yet there are a few unlucky people
who don't feel pain. Which means
they can get an infection, and die
before they know something's wrong.

21. One of the drawbacks to our instincts
is that societies evolve MUCH FASTER
than our instincts do.

22. It's like we've got this caveman brain
that still thinks we need to chase after
food, and eat as much as we can
whenever we see some.

23. This is one of the primary causes of
"self sabotage," the mis-match
between our conscious desires, chosen
by living rationally in a modern society,
and our primitive instincts.

24. Social fear is a prime example of this.

25. You want to walk over there and start
a conversation, but your caveman
brain thinks you're about to go wrestle
a dinosaur or something.

26. You'd like to give a speech, but you
feel like you're about to jump into a pit
of piranhas.

27. You want to pitch an idea to your boss,
one you're sure will make you a lot of
money, but you feel like you're sticking
your head in a tiger's mouth.

28. Now, some say you should "feel the
fear and do it anyway."

29. Some say the only way is to FORCE
yourself through those situations.

30. Sure, that will work. But it takes a LOT
of willpower, and some very
uncomfortable feelings.

31. Or you could use some mental
techniques.

32. Practice doing it while FORCING your
brain to think good thoughts.

33. Re-Training that ancient part of you
that thinks there's danger behind
every shadow.

34. When you do that, you'll notice how
much easier life becomes.

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