The Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with Feeling Secure Imprisons Our Minds and Shapes Our Lives
Frank Faranda
We come into this world as helpless as the first person on a bare and unsafe earth, and endowed with a unique gift of imagination, we are able to populate our personal future with many real and imaginary threats. Thus, the most powerful, productive, creative ability, to which Homo Sapience owes all its inventions, from the digging stick to nuclear energy and artificial intelligence, turns into the main obstacle to self-realization, becomes a source of stress, phobias, an epidemic of anxiety disorders. In an effort to prevent possible dangers, we - as individuals and as a society - can literally deprive ourselves of the future. This book is about how to face your fears, understand the nature of their occurrence, protect your inner child, peer into the darkness and see potential opportunities through it.
