What is fear? The fear that we experience is a product of a combination of our ability to anticipate and our instinctual drive to survive. This involves two parts of our brain. The first is it the area of our brain that allows us to anticipate and simulate. It is the part of the brain that allows us to use imagination and suggestion. When allowed to run amok, this part of the brain will cause high levels of misery. The second part of the brain that is involved with fear helps us to react to any threats to our safety. Unfortunately, in many instances our ability to anticipate may cause us to falsely fear something that is not a threat. Some people unjustifiably react to perceptions that do not represent a threatening situation. Additionally, they also may imagine situations that have yet to occur, but which they believe may represent a genuine threat. When a person constantly...

Improving the performance in any given area most likely requires that you stop bad habits and strengthen the necessary parts of your brain and body. When someone is performing poorly they should realize that actually what they're doing is doing their poor performance at an expert level. This proves that they have the ability to achieve mastery. However, they are merely doing it in the wrong way. Getting rid of an expertly performed bad habit is not easy. In fact the brain and body will resist any efforts to change. Additionally, such efforts will most certainly strengthen the hold that those bad habits have. In order to change those habits, the secret is not focusing on them, but rather focusing on strengthening the alternatives. Essentially, this means that you should focus on installing, strengthening, and establishing the ability to recall new patterns of thinking and behaving. In...

When it comes to trusting another person or organization, it is all about predictability. Does the other entity conform with pre-existing patterns of expectation? If not there is a high-level of uncertainty. While we would always like our expectations be met, that is not always the case. Therefore, it is a matter of judgment whether there's a reasonable expectation of predictability or not. It is reasonable that over time a person will develop a reasonably accurate ability to judge. However, if that level of confidence never develops, it could be said that the person has a significant problem with trust. So we live our lives with a balance somewhere between respecting our survival instincts, which lead us to doubt everything, and a satisfaction that we know who to trust and who should not trust. When we are in a situation in which someone who we originally trusted without question...