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54. How To Manage Your Fear with Abigail Marsh

2/17/2021
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Abigail Marsh brings us years of research around fear. She is the author of The Fear Factor and a Ted Talk speaker with over 2.2Million views.  

As a Psychology researcher she studies the motivations of people who do extremely altruistic acts and those who lean towards psychopathy (sociopaths). She teaches topics that range from Neuroscience and Cognitive Science at Georgetown.

Abby shares her personal journey that led her to studying fear and altruism, the difference between fearlessness and bravery, what meta-fear is and how it affects your thoughts and behaviors, plus how to question your own fear and build relationships in spite of your fear or others.

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Things we cover in this episode:

  • Abby's personal experience with fear
  • Why some people are more altruistic than others and how it relates to fear
  • Fearlessness Vs bravery
  • Meta-fear and how it an can bring you down
  • How to question your own fear
  • How to look for fear in others
  • Building relationships when someone is more fearful, less trusting
  • The science of fear

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