James Collier: Overcoming Anxiety

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When one is limited to do so, he is putting himself out on the line to make him anxious or afraid. If he wanted to stand up and face his fears all he would have to do is embrace them. Eliminating one’s anxiety will allow one to embrace his obstacles. For instance, when Phil Hansen embraced his shake by making his artwork more different than usual. Also, when James Collier was anxious, embracing but he hesitated and then actually agreed to do the assignment. Hansen embracing his shake, Collier progressively gets better with anxiety, how I embraced a certain moment and overcome my anxiety to a certain point. By embracing the shake, Phil Hansen was extremely creative with his artwork. With having his handshake he was having a hard time. His hand …show more content…

One can always learn from their anxiety, by not backing down to the situation and just face them. Therefore, James Collier had some challenges for his anxiety, but he had progressed. He was learning from his anxiety to make him better, to control it. In fact, Collier said, “You can’t learn if you don’t try.” When Collier had been in college one of his roommates wanted him to go with him to a ranch in Argentina. Collier began to think, he has never been to far from New England. Day after day he began to have night sweats he didn’t know what was going to happen on this trip. He eventually turned it down. On the other hand, he went back to his old job and realized that he turned it down going to a ranch because of the fact he got scared. In the event of Collier not taking the trip to Argentina in years. Years had passed Collier had been offered a writing assignment that would require three months in Europe. He began to think and he didn’t know his way around Europe. He didn’t know about their culture and don’t know how to speak the language. Collier began to over think about the assignment and ended up accepting the trip. Collier came back from the trip to Europe. He had learned that he is an experienced traveler. For that being Collier never hesitated to head to any other place. As a result of Phil embracing the shake and Collier not being anxious anymore. I have had an embracing

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