Scare Your Soul
7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous Life
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Publisher Description
From the founder of Scare Your Soul, this self-help guide will help you find the courage to embrace all of life's uncertainties so that you can live a more elaborate life of your dreams.
Like a muscle, courage grows stronger the more you exercise it. Scare Your Soul will not only teach you how to exercise courage–it will guide you in taking small, boundary-pushing actions to expand your comfort zone.
Combining research on positive psychology with real-life stories, international thought leader and happiness entrepreneur Scott Simon challenges you to confront your limiting beliefs. With writing prompts and activities, Scare Your Soul is an interactive roadmap to building bravery.
If you crave an extraordinary life but feel like you don’t know how to take “extra” ordinary action, this book is for you.
It’s time to Scare Your Soul.
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This competent debut from performance coach Simon encourages readers to chase their dreams and face their fears. He shares strategies to build courage and outlines seven principles to facilitate a fulfilling life: gratitude, adventure, energy, curiosity, awe, forgiveness, and work. The author recounts growing up as a shy child until a moment of panic on a flight to Israel for his first post-college job led him to adopt the mantra, "Do one thing every day that scares you." Explaining that the brain's amygdala can bypass consciousness when sending fear responses to the body, Simon discusses how to overcome this knee-jerk response by slowing down to evaluate if a fear is legitimate and developing new understandings of past events that may contribute to one's fears. He details steps one can take to enact his seven principles, urging readers to nurture gratitude by considering the "nontangible gifts that nature, spirituality, community give," as well as practicing forgiveness by considering the ways in which the offending party is a "wounded person raised by other wounded people." Exhortations for readers to lean into what they're afraid of are not new (Simon's mantra is an apocryphal quote often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt), but Simon's enthusiasm and sincerity buoy the familiar advice. This is worth a look.
