Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

OUR BIGGEST ENEMIES
The two factors that contribute most to the feeling of helplessness
and the comfort zone are 
fear
and
ignorance
. Fear is and always has
been your greatest enemy. Fear and self-doubt do more to hold you
back from dreaming big dreams, and accomplishing great things,
than any other factors.
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It seems that the 
less you know
about a subject, the 
more fearful
you are of trying something new or different in that area.Your igno-
rance makes you reluctant to reach out for something better than
what you are doing today. Fear and ignorance reinforce each other,
growing until they induce in you a form of mental paralysis that
leads inevitably to underachievement and failure.
Here is a wonderful discovery. Aggressively 
learning
about any
subject builds your confidence and diminishes your fear in that
area. As your knowledge or skill increases, you soon reach the point
where you are ready to take action and make changes. But if you
are completely ignorant in a particular area, if you have not read or
learned anything about a subject, it will seem too difficult and may
even appear overwhelming to you. Your lack of knowledge will
make you afraid to take the actions necessary to improve your life
in that area.
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