Fears
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Our
fears
provoke in us a very similar form of suspense.
Just like all great stories, our
fears
focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
In other words, our
fears
make us think about the future.
And humans, by the way, are the only creatures capable of thinking about the future in this way, of projecting ourselves forward in time, and this mental time travel is just one more thing that
fears
have in common with storytelling.
So if we think of our
fears
as more than just
fears
but as stories, we should think of ourselves as the authors of those stories.
But just as importantly, we need to think of ourselves as the readers of our fears, and how we choose to read our
fears
can have a profound effect on our lives.
Now, some of us naturally read our
fears
more closely than others.
I read about a study recently of successful entrepreneurs, and the author found that these people shared a habit that he called "productive paranoia," which meant that these people, instead of dismissing their fears, these people read them closely, they studied them, and then they translated that fear into preparation and action.
So that way, if their worst
fears
came true, their businesses were ready.
And sometimes, of course, our worst
fears
do come true.
Once in a while, our
fears
can predict the future.
But we can't possibly prepare for all of the
fears
that our imaginations concoct.
So how can we tell the difference between the
fears
worth listening to and all the others?
Of all the narratives their
fears
wrote, they responded only to the most lurid, the most vivid, the one that was easiest for their imaginations to picture: cannibals.
But perhaps if they'd been able to read their
fears
more like a scientist, with more coolness of judgment, they would have listened instead to the less violent but the more likely tale, the story of starvation, and headed for Tahiti, just as Melville's sad commentary suggests.
And maybe if we all tried to read our fears, we too would be less often swayed by the most salacious among them.
Just as the most nuanced stories in literature are often the richest, so too might our subtlest
fears
be the truest.
Read in the right way, our
fears
are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
So blogging and tweeting not just about my tour dates and my new video but about our work and our art and our
fears
and our hangovers, our mistakes, and we see each other.
When people use technology to exploit and harm others, they're preying on our human
fears
and vulnerabilities.
We were led by our
fears.
And our
fears
led to a blind faith in the orthodoxy of austerity.
That is, abandoning our collective power to imagine our potential, falling victims to our fears, our stereotypes, our dogmas, taking our citizens out of the process rather than building the process around our citizens.
So that, I think, would be a way to answer some of the
fears
that we have in our society.
I spent some time telling the college G.P. about what I perceived to be the real problem: anxiety, low self-worth,
fears
about the future, and was met with bored indifference until I mentioned the voice, upon which he dropped his pen, swung round and began to question me with a show of real interest.
Our worst
fears
might have been something like this, but we didn't know this was happening.
But that little story is really about the
fears
and misconceptions that come along with the idea of moving through the city without sight, seemingly oblivious to the environment and the people around you.
It's just after a special mayoral election, and word has gotten out that there is going to be this citywide planning process, which brings a lot of anxiety and
fears
among Detroiters.
We place such a premium on our free will and our independence that the prospect of losing those qualities to forces unseen informs many of our deepest societal
fears.
All of a sudden, my
fears
were minimized.
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