The true meaning of FEAR...

For me,,, being afraid to things u dont like to happen....!!!!

I love that acronym, thanks for sharing.

Fear is something you must overcome if whatever you are afraid of won't kill you and if there's a good benefit of overcoming it.

We need to topple down fear in order to succeed.

fear is what you dont know or understand.

Learn from this great quote:

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves,
regret for the past and fear of the future.”

Fear is the source of one's greatest accomplishment.

If you can control your fear, it will be good partnership for you. It will help you to avoid really dangerous situations, but motivates you to overcome yourself and suceed.

I know we usually hear FEAR standing for False Evidence Appearing Real... But what happens when the Evidence isn’t False? What do you do when it’s true evidence and it appears real… because it is real.

Here's something I learned from Robert Kiyosaki, that makes it a little easier to use FEAR to propel you to new heights. Robert said he looked at FEAR from the perspective of Fail Early And Responsibly. By using this definition and looking at FEAR from this perspective you can not only get yourself into action mode, but also get FEAR to thrust you towards success.

He first says Fail Early. You may hear it different ways, fail quick or fail as fast as possible. It all means the same thing. You can’t be afraid to fail. At least not if you want to be successful at something. Successful people know they must fail, in order to succeed. Jim Rohn says if you do something often enough, a pattern will appear. So if you’re afraid to do something because you don’t know how its going to work out, you have to start doing it and keep doing it until the pattern appears. Or look at other people’s patterns of doing that thing. Yours may be a little different, but you can get an idea from studying what others have done. Robert said he knew from history that 8 out of 10 businesses failed. His first 2 failed, but the 3rd made him wildly successful. His goal was to just get to 10 as fast as possible. The true evidence showed that 2 would succeed. So he Failed Early, quickly, as fast as possible. So take your FEAR of doing whatever it is you’re afraid to do because you might fail at it and know that you should just HURRY UP AND FAIL.

But the purpose of Failing Early is not just to go out and Fail at a bunch of stuff. Remember the second part, And Responsibly. Failing Responsibly means to learn from your failures. Learn what not to do again. Sometimes its just as important, if not more, as learning what to do. You should learn from all your experiences, successes and failures. Focus on, remember, and learn from your successes. Learn from then forget about your failures… after you’ve learned from them. The past is the past, success or failure. No success or failure from the past itself can help you in the present. Only the lessons you’ve learned and the wisdom you’ve gained from past successes and failures can truly help you in the present. So I guess in addition to Failing Responsibly you should Succeed Responsibly as well. Learn from both experiences. The more you fail, the more you’ll succeed as long as you’re learning along the way. Responsibly is the key and no one can learn the lessons or gain the wisdom for you.

So if you have a Fear of Failure, remember to Fail Early And Responsibly. Get moving, take action and go do something quick, as fast as possible. But learn from every experience you have. If you never do anything and never learn anything, you’ll never get to the success you’re after that has you scared to fail in the first place.


I’m headed off to go FAIL at something.

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

fear is the heart of failure!

The fear of failure can be quite overwhelming, as everyone deals with failures and stress differently. It is indeed how you deal with these challenges, what actions you take to get there, and learn from them that can mean the difference of staying where you are, or propelling you into the future, and expanding and surpassing your past limitations. Thank you all for sharing, great, helpful perspectives.

This is what I think is the real meaning of fear. It explains why we fear certain things and how fear is used for our "protection." I hope you enjoy this.
I once heard that “you fear what you do not know.” I strongly oppose this because humans don't want to fear anything. In this, humans fear the thought of fear. So if someone fears fear than they must not know fear if fear is something you do not know. So in opposition, I believe fear is something you know too much of. For example: A man walks through an alley at night not knowing of heathens, thugs, or things that go bump in the night and he doesn't fear the alley, but another man walks through the same alley knowing of all of these evils and he fears every step in that alley.

People can learn everything to prepare themselves for what not to fear, but the more you know the more you have to fear. Not one man from the beginning of humanity to the end can say that he doesn't fear a thing, unless he were completely ignorant to danger, death, pain, loss, etc. (pretty much the conditions of life). If someone did manage to lack fear for themself then they will have fear due to love of a spouse, family member, country, etc., because fear is not only rooted from evil but from love, or in better words, the loss of love.

Fear is a type of “protection” for the human body. It learns from experiences. It could be experiences that the person had themself or experiences the person saw happen on T.V., internet, or to someone they knew, therefore, backing up my statement that “fear is something you know too much of.” Learning to fear the certain thing that happened, that person is “protected” from it in the future . . . by fear.

So in conclusion, fear is one of the many traits of mankind that is a “protection” device for the human body. It is stemmed from the knowledge of any type of evil, since any type of evil can cause pain on some level, and from the knowledge of losing someone you love.

This is what I think is the real meaning of fear. It explains why we fear certain things and how fear is used for our "protection." I hope you enjoy this.
I once heard that "you fear what you do not know." I strongly oppose this because humans don't want to fear anything. In this, humans fear the thought of fear. So if someone fears fear than they must not know fear if fear is something you do not know. So in opposition, I believe fear is something you know too much of. For example: A man walks through an alley at night not knowing of heathens, thugs, or things that go bump in the night and he doesn't fear the alley, but another man walks through the same alley knowing of all of these evils and he fears every step in that alley.

People can learn everything to prepare themselves for what not to fear, but the more you know the more you have to fear. Not one man from the beginning of humanity to the end can say that he doesn't fear a thing, unless he were completely ignorant to danger, death, pain, loss, etc. (pretty much the conditions of life). If someone did manage to lack fear for themself then they will have fear due to love of a spouse, family member, country, etc., because fear is not only rooted from evil but from love, or in better words, the loss of love.

Fear is a type of "protection" for the human body. It learns from experiences. It could be experiences that the person had themself or experiences the person saw happen on T.V., internet, or to someone they knew, therefore, backing up my statement that "fear is something you know too much of." Learning to fear the certain thing that happened, that person is "protected" from it in the future . . . by fear.

So in conclusion, fear is one of the many traits of mankind that is a "protection" device for the human body. It is stemmed from the knowledge of any type of evil, since any type of evil can cause pain on some level, and from the knowledge of losing someone you love.

Fear is often our imagination getting out of control. How many times have we feared to worst, only to discover it was not real?

REAL + APPEARING + EVIDENCE = FALSE

This only happens in the human mind. It has a way of storing itself in data packets as cockies to the brain. If you don't constantly delete it, the result is the negative implications. In essence you got to face it. Facing it makes it lk unreal which makes it FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL

Every one who seeks success in life should shield their mind from fear thought and other negative thoughts. Someone with fear thought in their mind is always anticipating that something, especially something unpleasant, is about to happen to them. In the meantime, their mind is totally devoid of positive thoughts which are so vital to success.

False Evidence Appearing Real is the same thing my mother always said in regards to F.E.A.R. I definitely agree with that statement.

Nice post

Cool acronym of FEAR

A reason for dread or apprehension: Being alone is my greatest fear.

You block your dream when you allow your FEAR to grow bigger than your faith.

i agree with you Debra Barrow....

Fear has been juxtaposed to many emotions including love. Love is letting go of fear is a book that sums it up

That is correct, False Evidence Appearing Real.... a lot of fear that we have is of things that rarely happen, so that is accurate statement for FEAR

Fear is something that we should overcome. I'ts sometimes hinders us to do or achieve our goals and dreams so better yet avoid it for us to continue our lives which will lead us towards success.

I do enjoy the saying about fear ... False Evidence Appearing Real... but there is one problem with it... we have two types of fear... healthy fear and unhealthy fear.

With healthy fear the evidence is very real.

Healthy fear is the mechanism that will shout at you to get off the street to avoid being run over by oncoming traffic.

When it comes to this type of fear, you will find that the action it urges you to take, the internal monologue you will experience, is short, to the point and highly efficient.

You aren't going to stand in the middle of the street and debate whether or not getting off the road is the best course of action when faced with speeding cars. Nor are you going to stand there and wonder which direction you should move in.

In fact, you probably won't even get as far as having an internal talk since your body will react long before you make a conscious decision to move. This is the level of efficiency of healthy fear.

You will generally find that healthy fear is all about doing what can be done in the present, about informing you of real and immediate dangers and about protecting you and guiding you.

Unhealthy fear is all about exaggeration and even inventing threats; it's about the need to be in control and about everything that could possibly go wrong in ten minutes time, tomorrow, next week or next year.

Unhealthy fear chatters at you all day long. It makes mountains out of molehills and even if there's absolutely no threat present, it makes sure to invent one.

It will talk to you all day long, pointing out even the tiniest things that could become threats, real or perceived.

This is the fear that will lead you into depression because your perception of yourself is that you have not lived up to your full potential.

Unhealthy fear is False Evidence Appearing Real!

Sadly, our unhealthy fears talk much louder and are much more extreme than our healthy fears and most of us have a tendency to put them in charge of our lives.

What's even worse is that most of us have convinced ourselves that our unhealthy fear is there to help us. It's there to "help" stop us from making mistakes that we might regret later.

- Ryan Puusaari

That is a good way to tackle fear. Now days fear is a fantasized event, it probably will not happen but you jinx yourself by constantly thinking about that it might occur...

Actually fear to me is natural and keeps you alert. I mean, fear keeps you from jumping off a building for no reason. It's when you think about things that work against it that makes you feel totally messed up.

Fear is GREAT, if you don't let it stop you moving towards your goals. It means you're going beyond your comfort zone. It means you're growing and learning. And yeah, you might fail now and then, but that's just another lesson along the way.

"Fear is borne of ignorance" doesn't make sense.
You can fear dying if you've just had a heart attack or a stroke,
and that would be natural.
Or you can fear a pit bull on the loose when you're out jogging,
and the doggie sees you. LOL

Fear Is The Congealing Frequency Of A Crystallizing Salt In Motion.......... - Tom Garris.


Fear Is The Created Friction From Beyond The Absolute Of Potential That Is Trapped Away From The Attracted Event Of Experience, Invented Knowledge, Or Perceived Understanding.......... - Tom Garris.

Well, I wish to ask this for some time, that , to define fear in the world of internet business,
does you guys think that , is it the "Web Fear" on scare to make mistakes that caused the panic and procrastination and so on that makes a person can't step out his/her first step to success ?

What do you guys think about it ? I would like to hear more. ^_^

I faced my own death last friday. I can tell you when you truly go after your goals and dreams then fear isn't just an acronym! Fortunately we have love to take care of that fear!

You are so right, thank for that post.

Do you know that it is so easy to control people when they fear?

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
- Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear. From Dune

Love is the opposite of fear. The more love, the less fear. The key words to generate more love are: respect, responsibility, courage, giving, knowing, humility.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Fear is for the weak

Fear is always something you have to overcome, for example I hate Spiders like hell. But the fear is gone since I tooked a Spider in my hand, since then everything is fine!!
Just to something against your fear.

Let's also remember that fear is wired in us to keep us from doing some stupid things, making brash mistakes, and also can protect us in certain ways (danger and harm).