The Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with ...

We come into this world as helpless as the first man on a bare and insecure earth, and, endowed with a unique gift of imagination, are capable of inhabiting our personal future with a host of real and imagined threats. Thus the most powerful, productive, creative ability to which Homo Sapience owes all his inventions, from the stick digger to nuclear power to artificial intelligence, turns out to be a major obstacle to self-realization, becomes a source of stress, phobias, an epidemic of anxiety disorders. In seeking to prevent possible dangers, we - as individuals and as a society - can literally rob ourselves of our future. The author explains how to face your fears, understand the nature of their occurrence, protect your inner child, look into the darkness and see through it the potential opportunities.