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Do you do one thing every day that scares you?

Do you do one thing every day that scares you?

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Elanor Roosevelt exhorted everybody to "Do one thing every day that scares you". Does anyone adhere to this?

What would be some suggested activities or behaviours?

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Watching the news is suffice for me.

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Today I opened this thread.

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@a-unique-nickname said
Today I opened this thread.
We put up the Christmas tree. 😲

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for most humans, death is the most unnerving event that can occur

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”
― Eckhart Tolle


embrace the end
for in the ending of life, we all are most equal

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
We put up the Christmas tree. 😲
In November? That's a bit late 🤔

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@fmf said
Elanor Roosevelt exhorted everybody to "Do one thing every day that scares you". Does anyone adhere to this?

What would be some suggested activities or behaviours?
Though it probably won't be valued a few thoughts:

* How much one is scared is a matter of personality. There are personalities who don't know fear... and there are people for whom things are scary that won't mean anything to the vast majority of people.

* Eleonore Roosevelt's quote can be paraphrased with the more modern: "Levae your comfort-zone at least once a day." This doesn't sound as scary. And she (in my opinion) certainly did not mean to be paraphrased like "Leave your learning/development zone for the Panic zone once a day".

* To be scared of something is in first instance a mechanism that the sould needs to be save. Now and then we should takle fears, some of those are paper tigers and we can overcome them and widen our comfort zone, which is a good thing. Some are BIG warning signs, and should not be ignored on a whim. Bungee jumping for example should be save, but you have to overcome an existential fear. Some can (and do) some won't . It's okay either way.

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@ponderable said
Though it probably won't be valued a few thoughts:

* How much one is scared is a matter of personality. There are personalities who don't know fear... and there are people for whom things are scary that won't mean anything to the vast majority of people.

* Eleonore Roosevelt's quote can be paraphrased with the more modern: "Levae your comfort-zone at least once a day ...[text shortened]... , but you have to overcome an existential fear. Some can (and do) some won't . It's okay either way.
This makes good sense...

Eleonore Roosevelt's quote can be paraphrased with the more modern: "Levae your comfort-zone at least once a day." This doesn't sound as scary.

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@ponderable said
Though it probably won't be valued a few thoughts
it probably won't be valued

???

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@fmf said
Elanor Roosevelt exhorted everybody to "Do one thing every day that scares you". Does anyone adhere to this?

What would be some suggested activities or behaviours?
Sounds like something a woman would say.

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@Rajk999

"Sounds like something a woman would say."

Sounds like something a man would say.

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@suzianne said
@Rajk999

"Sounds like something a woman would say."

Sounds like something a man would say.
Being Tri-sexual I am confused.

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@rajk999 said
Sounds like something a woman would say.
misogynistic penile appendage spews what?

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@david-burton said
Being Tri-sexual I am confused.
Get a good ole Oxford Dictionary and an Encyclopedia Britannica.

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@rookie54 said
misogynistic penile appendage spews what?
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