I highly recommend "In a Pit With a Lion On a Snowy Day" by Mark Batterson. There were statements made in the book that answered some questions that have always nagged at me. One of them being how to deal with being fearful. He states in this book: "The cure for fear of failure is not success. Its failure. The cure for the fear of rejection is not acceptance. It is rejection." The thought behind these statements comes from how we deal with allergies. We can either avoid the allergen or we get injections which are small doses of the allergen that causes us to build up immunity. "What are you afraid of? What allergens trigger a fear reaction? Those are the very things you need to expose yourself to. If fear become reality you could discover that its not the end of the world. Your fear is worse than the actual thing you're afraid of. If you learn from every mistake, then there is no such thing as failure anyway."
Even this observation was worth the purchase price. There are many other "nuggets of truth" in the book. Let me know what you think of it.
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