...when you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain. Brad Meltzer
About This Quote

The Gift of Fear is a quote by David Mamet. It is a play on the line from Shakespeare's Hamlet, "the gift is mine; but the use is yours." The idea of the quote is that there are certain situations and things in life that we must face and overcome. That we must not run from these things, but rather face them head on, with fear and determination. The problem with running from these things is that we often find ourselves in more pain than if we had just faced our fear head on.

We often find ourselves defeated and regretting the way we handled the situation. When you run from your fear as if it were a negative feeling, it actually becomes a positive feeling. When we come up with reasons to avoid our fears, we begin to feel more and more nervous and anxious about those things.

Source: The Inner Circle

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