On fear...

On fear: when making the career change, how much do we acknowledge fear before putting it on the back burner, and letting it go? Certainly acknowledge it enough to give one a healthy sense of caution, but not enough to paralyze our actions. Where is that balance? It seems like where we put that balance is very much informed by our childhoods... where else do we really learn, firsthand, where our pain thresholds are when our caution doesn't hold us back enough from getting hurt? Or the joys we obtain when our risk ends up in a successful outcome. Or, yet a third option, when we learn what we can get away with and achieve, without getting caught? What we learn in our childhoods, then, heavily informs how much weight we give to our fears as adults. How much weight, honor, respect, and possibly fear, we should give to our fears. Or at least so it seems... I would need to get a good psychology text to really dig into the matter 'officially.' Of course, how much weight do we put on that official explanation of our lives? The more textbook abstractions we get, the farther from truth we go, or so it feels to me. Textbook abstractions are a good framework for understanding our lives, but a poor substitute for understanding our selves. (whatever those selves may be). Again, though, just ramblings off the top of my head which seem to be the state of things as I see them this evening. All thoughts subject to change without prior warning. Void where prohibited. Contact local Balogna Factory for details.