The Future of Workplace Fear: How Human Reflex Stands in the Way of Digital Transformation

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S. PrenticeThe Future of Workplace Fearhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8101-7_3

3. Fear As a Life Force

Steve Prentice¹  

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Toronto, ON, Canada

 

From infancy to full adulthood, there is always something to be scared of. Fear can be uncomfortable, distracting, even downright paralyzing. It can come as brief, temporary experiences, or in waves, or it can be chronic.

To picture an individual existing without any fear at all – calm, dispassionate and unfeeling – would be unnatural, because fear, above all other sensations, emotions, or knowledge, is what makes us human. From fear springs some of our greatest achievements.

I learned that courage was not the absence ...