Rule number 1: Be fearless

Fear is a necessity. Without it, knowledge alone would protect us from the dangers of our world. In lieu of said knowledge we would fall prey to our own ignorance instead of instinctively fleeing from danger.

But instincts require adaptation in order to really work. Before humans understood fire, its pretty likely that we'd run from it if we saw it. Obviously today you don't find many people igniting the gas burners on the kitchen stove only to suddenly flee the house on the instinct of potential harm.

Its knowledge that does that. Over time, knowledge augments the instincts of a person, rendering what should become harmless over time into something that no longer scares us.

It's debatable whether or not human beings pass actual knowledge to our offspring, but its pretty much proven that fight/flee instincts are passed genetically from one generation to the next. In that sense, our knowledges ability to alter the fear instinct is in a sense the passage of information through the ages.

But fear is more pervasive for most. Fear dictates much of what we do - or fail to do. It is not simply the 'omg scary! run!' instinct that is unhealthy to us. The gripping, unreasonable fears that we cannot overcome that do the most damage, and the currency is more often than not missed opportunity, regret, or loss.

I'm going to give fearless a shot, and try to do something every day that scares me. I'll let you know how it goes.