3 Steps to Overcome Your Fears

Olympia LePoint may be my new hero.

Her talk about fear and overcoming it is pretty amazing:

‘Reprogramming your brain to overcome fear: Olympia LePoint at TEDxPCC’

When I stumbled upon this TED talk, I instantly knew I needed to show it in my Fundamentals of Speech class. The biggest problem students have in my class (and I believe in life as well), is not that they’re lazy or don’t understand course concepts, it’s that they’re scared.

I think it’s important to understand your fears and work through them. Once you can do this- as cheesy as it might sound- the world is full of possibilities.

So Olympia and I have that belief in common.

Here are her 3 steps for getting rid of fear:

1. Name your fear and reject it.
2. Reframe your thoughts (reprogram your brain to see fear differently)
3. Take action

We’re all scared of something. I encourage you to share this with your students, you never know who it might help.