Chapter 4
Harness Fear
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Why do some people move toward their fears, while others move away from them? It is precisely this question that I grappled with during the writing of my first book, Right Risk. It might surprise you to learn that a lot of authors don’t write about what they know; they write about what they want to know. And I wanted to know why I chose to deal with my fear of heights by becoming a high diver. When confronted with fear, why did I move toward it instead of away from it?
If you judge Right Risk by its cover, you might draw the inaccurate conclusion that the ...
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