Dealing with the fear of the unknown
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The fear of the unknown is easy to explain: our mind tells us that in order to move on, we need to know what awaits us, because “if a person knows, he controls the situation and if he doesn’t know, he doesn’t control it.» This is exactly what scares us the most, since control helps us manage the result of our actions.
This fear has been around for thousands of years and is part of what has helped us survive as a species. Many of us were afraid of the dark as children, mostly because we don’t know what might be hiding there. However, the fear of the unknown often slows down our development and complicates the discovery and understanding of new things, encouraging rejection and narrow-mindedness.
Fear of the unknown is one of the most common types of fear. To work with it, there is a simple algorithm …