On fear.

Fear is a self fulfilling circular construct that makes us weak. Yet fear was designed to protect us.

Sounds like some smart infuluential person should say this, and maybe they did, but I got a chance to think about it.  It appears that there are so many phobias in the world.  People are afraid of heights, birds, cats, mice, caterpillars.  Many people know that their fear is irrational, but still they have the fear.  Such fear is innate, and no matter what we do to trick our minds  into believing that we can deal with this issue, the slightest moment that we run into auto pilot, start to cruise in order to deal with external stressors, the possibility of triggering that fear increases.

So what do we do about it.  Can we avoid stress all of the time? The short answer is no.  Can we avoid shifting into autopilot? Well we must eat, and to eat we must take the stress of work and society.  Thus we must learn to recognize when we enter autopilot.

To summarize, stress enhances fear.  Fear makes us crazy, craziness makes us stressed. Thus we should learn to recognize when we are stressed to avoid getting crazy.