Interesting. Just that very morning I had breakfast with Paul Hartunian,
famous publicity expert and a licensed medical doctor, when he told me, "There is no such thing as fear."
"There isn't?" I asked Paul.
"No. You are born with only two fears," Paul explained. "The fear of loud
noises and the fear of falling. You lose those early on. Any other fears are created by you. They aren't real."
"How do you get rid of fear?"
"Stop it."
"Stop it?"
"Just stop it," Paul said. "Say you have a fear of bridges. If I put one
million dollars in cash on the other side and said you could have it if you walked across the bridge, nude, in front of a
crowd of people, you'd do it. Why? Because the reward is greater than the pain. Make the rewards greater and the fears will
vanish."
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The more successful we are,
the more we can help ourselves,
our families,
and the world.
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I told the young man before me the same thing. I then went on to add that
most people in business have a fear of success, or a fear of failure.
"I was just in a seminar with Ted Nicholas," I went on. "Ted said he had
failed many times, and what he learned is that nothing bad ever happens to you when you fail. Instead, you get life's greatest
lessons."
Of course, Ted is known as the four billion dollar man because he is now
a legend in direct marketing. It's obvious no failure ever stopped him.
"As for the fear of success," I told my new friend in Chicago, "what I've
learned is that the more successful I am, the more I can help myself, my family, and the world."
