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Fearless Growth: How Overcoming Fear Fuels Professional Success

Fearless Growth: How Overcoming Fear Fuels Professional Success

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Dec 15, 2023
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Fear is a natural human response. Fear is healthy. It harbours you and guides you. Encapsulating this emotion can enable you to become an effective leader and highly emotive.

It’s understandable to assume that fear is always negative. Fear can be an enabler as well as a blocker. It can protect and also restrict.

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Fear is not one dimensional, it’s a complex emotion, which when recognised can be a powerful tool in decision making and unlocking a teams potential.

Fear is a natural human response. This is very important to understand.

Fear can and should genuinely protect you. For example, throughout the Covid pandemic, a lot of people had been scared to encounter previously ‘normal’ aspects of their lives through the fear of transmission and everything that comes along with that such as ill-health and protecting the health workers.

Fear can block opportunity and overrule rationality.

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