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Welcome back to The smash a system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. And today I want to continue talking about fear as we have this week, and move on from yesterday where we talked about fear as a superpower. And I want to talk about fear as a weakness as a kryptonite. Throughout evolution, our species has evolved because of fear. We had to find a way to stay alive. We had to avoid predators, and other things that wanted to eat us. So we had to be on alert. Fear kept us alive, but we weren’t always in a state of fear. However, in today’s society, we are because evolution our brains have always been looking for danger to keep us alive. But now that we don’t have that danger, it gets manufactured for us. Just look at the news. Think about how much of the news is positive, how much of it is based on something scare the heck out of you. And that’s because fear gets your attention. Your brain wants to pay attention to fear and wants to pay attention to something that could harm you so it could get you out of harm’s way. But the problem is, you’re not in danger like he used to be. But people, advertisers, the media, politics, they all know that the first thing you pay attention to is fear. So they use it all the time, to get your attention to take control of you. And what I mean by taking control of you is they start to make you pay attention to things that they want you to pay attention to. And unless you’re aware of this, you go along. So what I want is for you to be aware of this, be aware of the fear that you’re being fed. Every time someone tells you that you’re going to lose your job because of something else, every time that people say that something’s going to kill you and it has a one in a million chance of killing you. Stop eating that fear telemann is enough, turn it off and live your life. Yeah, there’s a chance of a meteor falling on your head tomorrow. Is it a good chance? No. It’s like a one in a trillion chance. So why pay attention to it? You can’t even do anything about it. So why pay attention to it? Start looking at what you’re focusing on? are you focusing on things that you want to pay attention to? Or I’m what you’re being told to pay attention to? Stop letting others use fear against you. I’ve had people say, Oh, no, I can’t stop watching the news. I need to know what’s going on. First, how much of the news is actual news and how much of it is just an opinion of somebody else? To I want to make you a bet. I bet you you can go a whole week without watching the news and still live your day to day life and it won’t be impacted one bit. Somehow the news will filter to you through other channels. That’s a promise. That I can make you that is unless you’re a hermit living in the woods somewhere up in the mountains without an internet connection without a phone, you don’t do anything but chop wood all day. I haven’t watched the news and more or less 10 years, I still get by fine. So stop having your emotions hijacked by someone else for their purposes. And you might ask me, Well, what do I do with all that time and I say, do something you love to do? Spend time with someone that you love? Do something that makes you feel good. And after a week, I want you to get back to me. And let me know if you were able to survive. Let me know how you feel. Are you happier? Are you less anxious? Are you less stressed? We have the ability to enjoy our lives. All we need to do is own it. I’m Nino Prodan and I’ll talk to you tomorrow.