![]() ![]() ![]() I ended up getting help from four or five different people sometimes multiple times throughout the project. I didn’t want to look incompetent (even though I totally was). I wanted to be able to do it all myself because I was afraid of asking others for help. I had an idea for my prototype, but I had no experience coding. For example, in a virtual reality class I took last year, I had to build my own virtual reality prototype for a project. I tell stories of times I was afraid of something and then did exactly what I fearing. If we expect others to share what they are afraid of, we have to do it first. To talk about fear in a group, we have to model vulnerability. Growing in our ability to handle fear often requires talking about fear with others. That’s why I was so interested in this topic as a student and still now as someone who works with students and who is trying to improve everyday. So if we could discover better ways of walking with fear and even embracing it in our lives, the world opens up to us…who knows what could happen for us next. It makes us less likely to try new things, less likely to go after our goals, less likely to surprise ourselves and positively impact others, more likely to run from something as opposed to running toward something, more likely to tighten our grip on whatever it is that we’re trying to control or hold on to. A lot contributes to it, and it leads us to crumbling under any added pressure, to being paralyzed by uncertainty and fear.įear limits us in a lot of ways too. For college students in particular, many of us have grown up hearing that we have to do it all, have it all figured out, that we have to be the best, perfect even. I was stunned by how much talking about fear resonated with the students, but I also wasn’t.įear permeates our lives. They can learn something that might change their outlook and how they encounter challenges day-to-day. And it’s not just because they had to be there, it’s because they wanted to talk about this stuff, they wanted to know more. I’m starting to realize that it’s one of the most important things we can be talking with college students about.Īt these sessions, something remarkable happened: the students listened.Īnd they didn’t just listen like they might “listen” in a class, they fully engaged. Over the past few months, I’ve led two different sessions for groups of 10 college students on the topic of “fear.” ![]()
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