The document discusses the idea that human history is shaped by a desire to make life less scary and easier, emphasizing the flexible nature of 'meaning' in relation to human experiences and fears. It argues that while we can acknowledge fears as false, overcoming them requires practice and conscious efforts like visualization and journaling. Through these methods, individuals can learn to distinguish between real and false fears, enabling them to live more freely without the burden of unnecessary anxieties.

1. Kill False Fears

2. I read an interesting history book a
while back.

3. It's premise was that all of human
history could be described as a timid,
lazy people.

4. All of the major historical events were
driven primarily by two goals.

5. One to make things less scary, and two
to make them easier.

6. Scared and lazy people making things
easier and less scary.

7. Now, this is just one way of looking at
things. One thing about NLP is you
learn that "meaning" is pretty flexible.

8. Sure, if you're measuring how many
grams something is in a laboratory,
there's not much room for coming up
with different meanings.

9. But any time you have anything
related to the human experience, or
even a biological experience (trees
growing, etc.) meaning really IS
flexible.

10. Which is good news when we're
talking about things that scare us.

11. I'm sure you've heard the popular
"self-help" description of FEAR:

12. False Enemies Appearing Real.

13. Sounds cool, sounds like you know
what's up, but just coming up with
smart sounding sayings like that
doesn't really help much when you've
got to stand up in front of people and
give an impromptu speech.

14. You can tell yourself that your fears are
false until you're blue in the face, but
when you stand up, everybody gets
quiet and looks at you, it's kind of hard
to logic your way out of being
petrified.

15. So, how exactly do make that "truism"
real?

16. How do we actually FEEL that our fears
are false, rather than pretending we're
all that?

17. Practice, that's how.

18. One of the things about being human
is we are all born WAY before we are
fully developed.

19. Meaning the first years of our lives,
our brains are a sponge.

20. Unfortunately, we tend to soak up
both TRUE things about the world
around us, and FALSE things.

21. Since our brains were designed for a
much different time, being "safe"
rather than "sorry" makes our young
brains a lot less discriminating.

22. So we learn that a lot of things are
scary, even when they're not.

23. Problem is that here we are as adults,
with those learned experienced
programmed into us like they are
instincts.

24. So they those "false" fears FEEL just as
real as the REAL fears.

25. Luckily, we can slowly dismantle the
false ones, and keep the real ones.

26. By focused visualization, mental
exercises, journaling and other
"tricks."

27. It's not magic, and it does take time.

28. But imagine what you'll be able to do
when you're ONLY afraid of things you
SHOULD be afraid of? Like escaped
tigers and jumping out of airplanes.

29. mindpersuasion.com/fearless/