Stoic Coffee Break

How many great things have never happened because of fear? How many times did you give up on a dream because of fear? This weeks episode, we’re going to talk about fear, what it is, what it does, and how to move past it.This last week, I had the good fortune to be in the studio at the filming of Creative Live’s podcast week. It was one of the most inspiring and amazing growth experiences I’ve been at in years. The energy that present and the generosity of time and knowledge from so many creatives has truly rekindled my own creative juices.But even as I think about all the creative projects that I’d like to complete in the next few months, I kept feeling this fear rise up in my chest. It was a literal feeling that I could feel. A kind of crushing anxiety.>“There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”>— Seneca (Letters from a Stoic - Letter XIII: On Groundless Fears)My life has been full of a lot of fear. For the most part I