Industries and markets rise and fall on confidence. Confidence rises and falls on perceived instability. The keyword is perceived which frequently, having no relation to reality, causes skewed results in the marketplace and on the hearth. The antithesis of confidence is fear which even moreso rises and falls on perceptions.
So what do we do? Convince ourselves there is nothing to be afraid of? I think not. That's a foolish approach since there are very real threats in the world. Convince ourselves that we can handle whatever it is we fear? That sounds a bit better but still bound by lack of face to face reality to a large degree. My own method is to just put fear out of my mind and go blithely forth to whatever awaits if I must. That also is the playground of fools. There has to be a mindset wherein one feels comfortable facing the unknown that is a rational confrontation, where one can feel the breadth and depth of the fear without caving under it's enormous threat and reacting instinctively, where rational analysis can reveal a truer nature of the perceived threat which may prove not be a threat at all since it seems most of the things we fear most are those we create in our own minds and hearts and exist nowhere else but there. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
