Hello my friends and welcome back to the English with Neil Learn English podcast.
How's everyone doing today?
In today's episode, we are going to explore fear.
Fear.
Fear is interesting.
I was thinking about fear this morning and fear has two sides.
Fear can help you and fear can work against you.
So an example of a way that fear can help you is by keeping you from dangerous situations.
When you go to the zoo, there are all these dangerous animals around.
Lions, tigers, elephants.
And if you didn't have fear inside of you, you can just simply walk into the lion's cage.
However, that wouldn't be a good idea, right?
So we have that fear inside of us to help us from dangerous situations.
That is how fear can help us.
But fear can also work against us.
For example, let's say you're walking down the street and you hear some people speaking English.
They're tourists in your country and you really want to talk to them.
You really just want to have a conversation, but you're fearful that Because you don't know how they're going to react to you.
Or you're fearful because you don't have confidence in your English.
So you keep walking and you miss the opportunity.
See, this is a way that fear can work against us, right?
So fear is something that you have to play with.
You have to realize when that fear is there to help you and you also have to realize When it's there to stop you from achieving a goal.
And I've done a lot of research on this and I've tried many different ideas.
And I have found in my own experience.
And I've also done a lot of research, but just in my own personal experience, the only way to overcome fear is to do the thing that you don't want to do.
It's that simple.
If you're fearful about something, you just do it anyway.
You do the thing that you don't want to do and that fear completely goes away.
Like magic.
I don't know how it works.
I don't know how it works, but all I know is that if you do the thing that you're fearful of, the fear will just run away.
It'll just go away.
So if you have a situation where you can speak english but you're fearful, just do it anyway.
Just start with a simple hello, right?
You hear people speaking english and they're having fun.
You're like oh man, i really want to talk to them.
Just say hi hello, Right.
You have completely eradicated the fear.
A simple hello can go a long way.
A simple hello can make a new friend.
A simple hello can make a new relationship.
A simple hello can open up a business opportunity.
So do the thing that you fear the most and the fear is going to go right out the window.
All right, everyone.
That is it for today's episode.
Thank you for tuning in to the English with Neil podcast.
I look forward to speaking with you in the next one.
Take care, everyone, and talk to you soon.
Peace.