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Lextra Credit: Practicing how you handle fear

Lextra Credit: Practicing how you handle fear

Like any other muscle, you have to work out your fear response.

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Lex Friedman
Apr 25, 2023
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Earlier today, I published a free post about fear. Read that piece first, and then come back here and read some ideas on practicing how to get more comfortable feeling and processing fear in real time.

You work out that muscle by repeatedly getting outside your comfort zone, ideally sometimes in lower-stakes scenarios, so you can practice feeling — but not being incapacitated by — fear.

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