fearlessness beats fear

From Visa's reply tweet, I found Matt's tweet: a lot of people who have changed their reality by changing their attitude love talking about how changing their attitude changed their reality, always to be met with a resounding chorus of "that could never work" "impossible" "downright outlandish" I then found Asa's reply tweet. He shared a book excerpt apparently attributed to Theodore Roosevelt with words he found complementary to Matt's: Having been a rather sickly and awkward boy, I was, as a young man, at first both nervous and distrustful of my own prowess. I had to train myself painfully and laboriously not merely as regards my body but as regards my soul and spirit. ... When a boy, I read a passage in one of Marryat's books which always impressed me. He says that at the outset almost every man is frightened when he goes into action but that the course to follow is for the man to keep such a grip on himself that he can act just as if he were not frightened. After this is kept up…