Why The Best Never Stop Feeling Fear

Before we get started, let me tell you you can now listen to High Performance Add Free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. Hey, welcome along to another episode of High Performance. Today we are talking to you about how to normalize fear. I just want to say at the start of this conversation that we often put these Episodes out because of you, the high performance community members who are messaging us, telling us that there are things in your life that you're struggling with, please keep messaging, please keep subscribing to the show. Please keep telling us the kinds of conversations, the kind of guests The the kind of views that we can have, which would be really helpful for you. This is your show and you should be central to it. So today, fear.

It's a central conversation, Damien. And I think that we've spoken so much on this show since we started seven years ago. Um, about normalising fear, normalizing struggle, imposter syndrome, marginal gains, you know, all of these things. And I think Talking about fear is very common, you know, so We've definitely I think said it's okay to say I got that wrong. Um, and I don't feel good enough. But I think there's also an area that we've skirted around and it's probably the thing that sits underneath all of The

The elements of fear. Every guest who's come and sat in the chair that we're sitting in right now, Olympians, managers, CEOs, celebrities. Um It's that they talk about being fearless, playing without fear, having no fear. And actually the research says that That isn't how it works. Like the the conversation we need to have with people is not about removing fear from your life. Fear in many ways is a necessary element to pushing the boundaries, to challenging yourself, to doing not just

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