Status Updates From The Fear Bubble: Harness Fe...

Amazing to hear of ants journey summiting Everest. Ant says that you have to put yourself through challange in order to grow. And life is full of them so challange yourself constantly.

Underneath all these different fears there is one persistent fear , the fear that we aren’t good enough. With this fear conquered we can face the other fears in life.

Use insult or pain to your own advantage. Motivate yourself with it

Brutal honesty makes you bulletproof to insults (criticism). By sitting down and listing all the bad things about yourself when somebody uses these to attack you, you’ll already be aware and therefore have dealt with it

The difference between pride and ego is that people with pride are motivated to do a task in full honest and integrity even when no one is around. An egotistical person takes the shortcut and claims credit immediately.

Ant defines the fear of failure as a key factor in people not moving forward. I didn’t apply to Oxford out of fear of failure , I could’ve got into Oxford and this might’ve given me the motivation I needed to get grades. The man who doesn’t fail is the man who doesn’t try.

The fear response, letting fear in when it’s needed (not general panic) is important. Understand and accept what you feel and use and embrace it. The go or no response, when you feel that fear you either decide to go or step back it’s saying maybe that’s the killer. If you say no then you can step out of it and attack the bubble again once you’re ready.

I find it sort of a relief that ant has a degree of respect and generosity. It’s clear that he wants to be indulged by and indulge in the local culture. He’s going to Everest for him and himself only. It’s making me want to climb Everest myself.

The three step method for stopping yourself becoming a victim over a situation is acknowledge: accept that something has happened and understand your role in it
Process: let it sit and figure out what you can do differently to stop this kind of thing happening again
Move on: distance yourself from the issue, just leave it behind and forget about it. Don’t look back with bitterness or hate.

Surround yourself with the victim and they drag you into their view of the world.

The victim mindset , as ant states, is very good at causing people to live in fear. Leads to a constant state of expecting the worst and being terrified to accept new opportunities as the “bad things always happen to me”

It’s now getting to an interesting point as I’m enjoying hearing about the mountain itself and the journey up it and less of ants arrogant ramble. The Sherpas seem like such interesting people and I would love myself to visit Everest.

The way ant describes himself and his life is like a 20 year old boy on cocaine In a randomers kitchen. It genuinely all just reminds me of cocaine ramble. I think the lack of care for his own safety is so fucking selfish considering he has children and a wife. Claims that they’re the most important thing in his life yet is willing to risk it all for a fucking kick. I hope he’s just being performative.

Okay now into the real thing. The fear bubble technique at first to me felt non applicable to my life. Upon hearing of Lucas’ story it made me feel extremely inspired and gave me the desire to implement. I imagined implementing it in my issues with procrastination and talking to girls. These are my two main goals with it.

Don’t feel fear unless it’s imminent. Enter the bubble upon speaking to the woman.

Okay ant is now coming off as very arrogant however I don’t think he’s completely unaware of this.

Ant mentions terrorists and what would happen in the scenario of it kicking off in a luxury restaurant. He seems to have a them and us mindset. Terrorists and non terrorists like. Seems quite raw and almost traumatic in the brutalistic way he imagines all this. The writing so far is my kind of style that I enjoy thoroughly.