How To Become Optimistic In spite Of Fear And Uncertainty.

We humans are psychologically wired from the head to the toes.

We consciously and subconsciously respond to external stimulus from both inside and outside the body.

There is no single minute when a person feels no emotion. As you are bombarded by various thoughts, each of them comes with different level of emotional intensity.

These emotions direct your thought, produce your feelings and dictate your behavior.

Fear and feelings of uncertainty are natural part of human emotions. We have these emotions at various degree depending on our upbringing and experience.

Nobody was born without fear of emotion. It is a biological trait of any creatures called mammal. Fear is the root a of all negative emotions.

Although, fear is not totally negative. Fear could be a protective factor against dangers. It is the emotion of fear that makes us run or stay away from dangerous situation like falling from tall building.

Despite its usefulness, it could also be an obstacle to your growth if it is irrationally allowed to consume you.

Fear produces uncertainty. Emotion of uncertainty is a level of accumulated doubt caused by projection of wrong mental pictures due to fear.

The first step to control fear is acquisition of knowledge. The more you become knowledgeable in one area, the higher your level of confidence and your fear will dissipate as time goes on.

Continuous accumulation of knowledge gets you to the level of proficiency, and this in turn reduces the fear until you rarely feel it.

If optimism is absent, what you have is pessimism. The major causes of pessimism are fear and sorrow.

To get over sorrow you may need to reach the last stage for cycle of sorrow, or you may find courage to get over the situation no matter how worse it is.

If sorrow is out of the case, dealing with fear can also be as simple as facing whatever gets you scared.

Mark Twain quoted, “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain”. I found the quote to be truth almost all the time.

When you face your fear, it diminishes gradually, and you become optimistic to do more as you gain result.

More results equal more enthusiasm to tackle more challenges in the nearest future.

By the time your results compound, you feel happy and willingly take more actions regardless of your state of mind.

Achieving more of your heart desires gives you natural drive that pushes you through any obstacles.

Focus on getting result, qualify for award, get higher grade, do more sales, get promotion, and you will be showered with a high level of optimism that drives mentality for better performance.

Take note of these factors mentioned below. They are parts of the elements for curing fear.

Get more result and eradicate poverty (lack of money comes with bunches of fear and pessimism).

Originally published at https://www.10xundergrad.com on April 26, 2022.