Joseph Campbell is famous for several things, not the least of which is his idea of The Hero's Journey. His formula for creating a Hero's Journey inspired George Lucas, who in case you didn't know, wrote a little screenplay I like to call Star Wars. If A + B = C and B + A = C, then Joseph Campbell actually invented Star Wars...or whatever. I'm not a mathematician. I barely qualify as a writer.

Campbell coined one of my favorite quotes of all time when he said: "Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself  on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else." 

I should be able to tell you without any hesitation that Mr. Campbell was right. After all, I'm well into my middle age now and I have a considerable amount of life experience. But I confess that I've spent the lion's share of my life following the dollar, not the bliss, and that dollar is a slippery fellow. I don't remember following him into a cheese plant, and I certainly don't remember following him to the night shift. Also, that dollar? He ain't under the Swiss cheese.
I do know one thing for sure, though. If you follow your bliss, you expend positive energy in its pursuit, and if you establish daily habits and keep striving, no goal is out of reach. Mr. Campbell was right. A + B really does equal C, which is another way of saying fear is a liar.

Call its bluff.