Fear is an illusion. With knowledge and understanding we can dilute fear. Practice and life experiences can also dilute fear. Taking a leap of faith is sometimes the best option. If someone offers you a great opportunity you should take it however be aware that more opportunities will show up when you are least expecting it.
Sometimes you are offered a few great opportunities and you don't know which one to take :P
Yes that happens. Go with your instincts and go for it. :)
So true!
Fear is definatley an illusion....but that doesn't make it not real.
It is real in our experience.
And I agree :)
Fear is in fact a real response however maybe it should be called "uncertainty of the unknown". The brain demanding more information. It is a safety mechanism. A natural survival instinct. The key is to learn more about what is in front of you. All we can do is experience life for what it is and learn to cope with our own doubt. Mindset.
At its core it is illusion. But that doesn't mean it isn't real in a variety of ways.
Yes.
Fear is an emotion and there is more than one type of fear. Without ever putting it into words the above article is about one specific kind: ''fear of success''. Taken into a Steem context, declaring that a class of successful people is a warrior class, means that the Whales class fought for its success. Like in Brave New World, I believe there are classes that were engineered from the network's genesis or in the very first months of the actual beta phase of Steemit. That doesn't mean some people can't, with more efforts than their predecessors, eventually make it into superior classes. The veracity of this ''warriors don't fear success'' generalization I wouldn't be able to judge for this platform, since except for Dan & Ned, to me (I haven't really check into this) all Whales are mere usernames with Steem Power. I don't doubt that the two founders are fighters, the others I don't know. If it happens to be the case, only being in the knight guard in a system similar to serfdom isn't enough in itself to be considered a warrior, in my small Minnow opinion.
*Edited many times for cause of being at work and being interrupted many times during my lunch hour. Time is also a very important element in the formula for success.
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I appreciate your perspective. We are all warriors in the end as everyone has their own battles. All we can control are our own reactions. That is where battles are won and lost.
Thanks for the reply. I didn't once read the serfdom comparison in an excellent post when I first joined in and at the time most of all I saw in my feed were anarchists topics. The idea is not from me and I seem to have lose track of all that good stuff. My intent was also not to imply bad intentions, but I feel power should (and will probably) be more spread in a future ''out of Beta phase''. A lot of people talk about users retention: this is where one of the solutions lies in my opinion. It is not normal that I would work three days straight researching and putting exclusive analysis on a hot topic and get 0,03$ and one week later use 95% of the info from a video I have not made myself and get 20,00$ for it. The 0,03$ is kind of insulting, since maybe someday in the future somebody will find it and value it as precious but it'll be too late. Steem trails, curies, Robin Hood Whales have all failed big time in my opinion. It took me one month and more of posts before I started having gratifications and I did accumulate frustration at the end, at the time, but now I realized I then lacked the editing skills and practice.
You have a very good point about reactions but I feel sometimes when holding too long a thought you just need to let it out in order to get rid of it. No need to wait for the boiler's whistle for expressing it, but sometimes when you thought you could keep it to yourself, you realize you just couldn't. I don't practice yoga or relaxation, and I'm sure it has its benefits, but I think the repetitive urge to say something when you've witnessed something you're feeling is not quite right (whether your correct in judgment or not), must most of the times be adressed at one time or the other by spelling it out so that you can finally cleanse your thoughts out of it.