(1) DELIBERATELY, UNHESITATINGLY,
DO THE THING YOU FEAR! Impress on yourseH that
you ARE doing the thing you fear ... voluntarily ... de-
liberately ... without hesitation! Not timidly-but boldly!
You probably still will experience the feeling of fear at
first. Good! Emphasize the feeling of fear! Over-emphasize
it! Then deliberately... unhesitatingly... do the thing
you fear! Laugh in its face! Ridicule it! Stare your fear
down! Kick it around! Trample it! Keep aware that you
ARE doing the thing you fear-and to hell with it! You are
going to do it anyway!
(2) REPEATEDLY DO THE THING YOU
FEAR! Over and over again! Literally wear your fear out.
(If you want to be scientific about it, this is called the:
"FEAR EXHAUSTION METHOD".) But by any name,
the technique is to repeatedly do the thing you fear until
you don't fear it any more! Not even the least bit!
(3) LAUGH AT YOUR FEAR! The one thing
that fear can't stand is to be laughed at. Taunt it! Sneer
at it! Mock it! Make fun of it! And all the time, keep doing
the thing you fear... deliberately... unhesitatingly.(4) BE A FATALIST! I'll always remember
the gangster who was involved, as usual, in a gang war
with a rival gang. One night, he and two companions were
shot at from an ambush. A companion on each side of him
was shot dead. Miraculously, he was unharmed. Later
when reporters asked if he wasn't afraid that the other
gang would "get" him, too, he just shrugged and said,
'We've all gotta go sometime, somehow". He was willing