
- Acknowledge fear
This is the first thing to do. Acknowledge that you are fearful especially to the ones that you fear. It is seen as a weakness but that’s when you gather strength to overcome fear. Also acknowledge why you fear what you fear. Mostly people are afraid of loss – loss of respect, being embarrassed, being considered irrational and being considered a loser.
- People judge accept it as it is.
People will judge you always, whether they know anything about you or don’t even know about you, whether they are right or wrong eventually they have to judge. Judging makes everyone human, makes everyone a thinker that’s why we judge. When you do good or bad, people are going to judge you. As Karl Moore once said, “People say what they don’t mean and mean what they don’t say. Stop being emotional about it”
- Acknowledge being stupid.
This sounds stupid. Let me show you how it breaks fear. If you say to people that you are the most stupid person in the world no one will judge you about it later. Even if they say so, you re confirm that you told them so. This is the secret about this method. Everyone in the whole world is stupid even the wise men themselves. The difference is that people tend to hide their stupidity especially the wise ones. No one wants to be seen as stupid and unreasonable. Confirming that you are one creates a different perspective. If someone calls me stupid today, I would say yes I am stupid. I am a better stupid human being because I know I am stupid than a stupid human being who does not know that he is stupid.
Most people who invented a lot of things in the world were considered stupid. Considering a man fly like a bird was being childish or stupid. But look how that stupid idea became. As rational human beings, when we are sober, we tend to categorize what to say and what not to say because some ideas will be stupid. You will only utter things out of your mouth that you believe or know they make sense.
A good example is when you see a person who is reasonable gets drunk. He may start being unreasonable because he is no longer controlling his behavior as much as he would when be is sober. I am not justifying the actions but when one is drunk, that shyness will be gone. The fear of looking stupid holds a lot of people back from unleashing the greatness they already are.
If I am stupid so what? If I am a loser so what?
- Know yourself
Knowing who you are is power. Knowing who you are is wisdom, knowing others is intelligence. You should know who you are and for you to do that, start by defining yourself. Even Socrates, one of greatest philosophers in the world said “Know thyself” the more you know about who you are and acknowledge your strengths and your weaknesses.
- Consider yourself dead
Have you ever reached a point where you don’t care about anything anymore? This usually happens when you have realized that there is no point to live anymore. It is usually bad but if used at the right time it can yield results to quit fear. When you really see no point to live, you become scared of nothing. Consider yourself dead. Fortunately, I am a human being who is driven by passion. I said to myself that I rather be dead expressing myself than dormant alive. Solve fear with attitude.
In conclusion
Accept vulnerability as fast as possible and be authentic about it. You are weak you are human that is how it is, we are humans we experiment. Creativity and mistakes have one thing in common, experimentation. An experiment is done to evaluate the validity of an assumption or a theory. Bulk of scientists made a tonne of mistakes for them to be sure of what the world is today and yet you are trying to be too perfect. Work with what you can and leave what you cant?






