Fear is a powerful force. What would you do to erase it? - a podcast by Nick Wichman & Trey Tatum

Thank you for listening! This episode goes into an interesting exploration of dreams and fear, which are often related.

Watch the Funny or Die parody video that started this entire conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk2L8xU5jNs

All fear boils down to the instinct of self preservation, and that social norms and taboos are constructed on the basis of self preservation, but that in modern times it's mostly unnecessary outside of your core group or community.

The world is so big and so many people are communicating so quickly that we respond to social pressure when it may not have any real threat to us. Our survival instincts are far behind our rapid progress with culture and technology. but the basis of our fear is almost a law of nature: survival at all costs, even when there is no threat.

So... if you were able to remove all of your instinctual reactions to fear – if you could erase fear of failure or embarrassment what would you do? If you found out that all of your fears are simply not logical, and your community gave you complete support, what would hold you back from pursuing your dreams?

Just some deep thoughts, all spurred by a joke commercial about a toilet.

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