Fear is often seen as a weakness or a flaw; however fear can also have some perks in certain situations. Over time people have started to use fear in their favor rather than letting it hold them back. Fear can actually be used to help people prepare for future events, but it can also negatively impact a person’s decisions. If you learn how to properly manage your fear you can use it to your advantage. According to the author Karen Thompson Walker “Now, some of us naturally read our fears more closely than others. I read about a study recently of successful entrepreneurs, and the author found that these people shared a habit that he called “productive paranoia,” which meant that these people, instead of dismissing their fears, these …show more content…
For example, it is mentioned in the article that “I think the end of the story of the whaleship Essex offers an illuminating, if tragic, example. After much deliberation, the men finally made a decision. Terrified of cannibals, they decided to forgo the closest islands and instead embarked on the longer and much more difficult route to South America. After more than two months at sea, the men ran out of food as they knew they might, and they were still quite far from land. When the last of the survivors were finally picked up by two passing ships, less than half of the men were left alive, and some of them had resorted to their own form of cannibalism. Herman Melville, who used this story as research for Moby Dick, wrote years later, and from dry land, quote, “All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might in all human probability have been avoided had they, immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti. But,” as Melville put it, “they dreaded cannibals.” This piece of literature shows how fear can negatively sway someone’s decision. In this scenario, a group of men made a bad decision based on an unlikely fear, and in the end, it was a more subtle fear that ended up killing them. Many people are worried about the more “salacious” fears such as “serial killers and plane crashes” when they should actually be worrying about subtle disasters such as “the silent
College is hard, scary, and stressful especially with children involved. I think it is a good thing I went to college when I did otherwise, I would be stuck in the same minimum wage job that I have had for the past year. It is going to be hard and stressful but the truth is that were all scared. It is just a matter of pushing myself into getting where I want to be. My main fear with college is mainly flunking out, it is scary but, it is also achievable. I thought to myself, “Hey, if my best friend can go to college then why I can I not”. There was three things that pushed me into going to college. Those are: getting a better job so I can spoil my children, continuing my education, and to be a role model for my children.
The balance between fear and foresight is a necessary component for an individual to maintain a healthy lifestyle, an imbalance of these components can potentially put people in difficult situations as it relates to their survival. Fear can be a humbling experience when it is not balanced with foresight, the nuances of that particular experience instills a subconscious thought in an individual that resonates with fear, in terms of people realizing their mistakes and making the necessary adjustments in life.
"Culture of Fear" is a book that describes that it is our perceptions that dangers have increased, and so much the actual level of risk. Glassner explains in all of his chapters how people and organizations use our fears as a way to increase their profit. Glassner also states about the prices we pay for our panics and all the time and energy we spend worrying. Americans are afraid because of the media's broadband expose of crime, violence, drugs and diseases.
Fear takes control of people´s lives everyday. Whether it be by death or the possible things that could cause death. Author´s of the book, Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner had written this book to further explain theories or simply how people logically handle certain situations. They even include how fear is an incentive that can affect people´s behavior. Levitt and Dubner represent their information by using rhetorical devices such as anecdote, inferences, paradox, and visuals. Let us dig deep inside their minds and prove that.
Fear influences people to make irrational decisions and take extreme measures. Often times, these actions are done to protect one’s reputation. Fear causes people to lie and manipulate to those they care about in order to escape what they are scared of most. Fear of failure has caused higher levels of anxiety, and has made society put blame on each other, rather than owning up to their mistakes. Fear can also cause one to forget one’s true identity and lose one’s values. There are two options that one can take when being faced with a fear: run away from the fear, or go through it and learn a valuable lesson in the end that will make you a stronger person. Fear is a harmful emotion that everyone has to go through in order to succeed.
Fear can motivate people in a positive way and a negative way, it can make you choose between right and wrong. In The Crucible And The Pact, it is shown that fear can influence people into action.
President Franklin Roosevelt famously said, “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”(Psychology Today) In literature, many authors use the five primal fears of extinction, mutilation, loss of autonomy, separation, and ego-death in their works. The primal fears of ego-death, separation, and loss of autonomy are used because they have an affect on one’s mental state that in some cases cause people to think unclearly and irrationally.
I agree, in my view, fear is very powerful “it paralyzes you from doing the work” , it makes everything seem “harder” or impossible to do when
In the words of Bertrand Russell, “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom” (Russell). Fear causes many problems in our lives. Fear influences many of a person’s actions and decisions. However, people usually regret the decisions or actions they made out of fear. Also, these actions and decisions can cause problems for those people in their future. Fear is a harmful emotion, for it clouds people’s judgement, disables them from taking action, and causes them to make decisions that they will regret later.
Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders. Gephyrophobia is the fear of crossing bridges. Acrophobia is the fear of heights. The only reason these are feared is because the less that is known, the more dangerous it is. Remaining ignorant of a source of fear is the only way fear can exist, so being more knowledgeable would help to conquer those fears.
Fear keeps humans from being stupid. Occasionally human’s detect a unsettling feeling in the pit of their stomach, this is know as the “gut” feeling which often prevents moronic actions which could have unfavorable consequences. This type of fear helps to keep humans grounded, sane, from being to risky. Fear often prevents people engaging in crazy actives, however, on occasion humans are able to overcome fears such as killing a spider, riding a roller coaster, when people conquer there fears it leads to a sense of bravery and confidence which had not been instilled in them before. This benefits the individual helping them to possibly realize they are capable of so
What is it about the smaller things in life that makes humans terrified? Why are some people afraid of something that will obviously never happen to them, while others are oblivious to the problems around them? The people who are afraid of things that pose little to no danger to them have some type of phobia. A phobia can range from sociophobia, which is the fear of being judged by society, to sesquipedalophobia, which is the fear of long words. Phobias come in wide varieties, and can seriously affect the victim of said phobia. Some people say that phobias are just strange, random fears that “crazy” people develop, but studies have shown that phobias often have thorough reasoning behind their cause.
In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, promote fear of crime and terrorism. They shaped these fears so that people looked to authorities for security, which permitted extension of apparatuses of coercion like police and military forces.” Panic is a sudden sensation of fear which is so strong as to completely dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with only overwhelming feelings of anxiety and frantic agitation consistent with animalistic reactions. Panic can occur singularly in individuals or appear suddenly in groups as panic. All beings capable of emotion have felt panic before. Panic is best visualized as uncovering a colony of cockroaches
Fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous or is a threat and is likely to cause pain. It is believed that everyone has fears in life or at least things or places that make us uncomfortable. There are hundreds of different types of fears and phobias. Common fears include the fear of death, the rear of the unknown, the fear of survival or unpredictability. Other fears could be the fear of ghosts, cockroaches, spiders, snakes and public speaking.
Fear can eat away at the conscience of people and even animals to completely change trains of thought and actions. Fear can be felt through any species, through different emotions, and can affect the behavior of the mind and body. It can create monsters of people and can drive ordinary individuals to the point of insanity. The dictionary definition does not simply describe the actual meaning of fear. Merriam-Webster's definition states fear as “an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger”. Fear comes from Old English when it was defined as “frightened” or “danger” which describes a piece of it. Fear is not being at ease with myself; fear is not having the confidence to act like myself and doing something