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Fear is Good


In a recent interview with billionaire Mark Cuban, worth $4.1B, and self-made, “When I started in business, fear motivated me."
In fact, all of us who have strived for something beyond experience this same fear.  We enter a world of uncertainty, which means we have made a bet on ourselves with little expectation but a lot of hope for a great outcome. We live in this fear, but we have a plan.  Not all survive. Some survive within measures in the interval. 

Indicated (not said) by Cuban, “Fear is a tool if you can endure it. Difficult for many.”

  To put fear in your service takes courage. 

We have lots of expressions for such drives.  “Shooting the moon,” is one of them.  But this is a quality of our humanity.  Not just war, food, love, reproduction, money, and all, the big one is the quest.

Are you  up to the challenge?  Maybe you want to be; maybe you’re afraid. Many try. Many succeed. Many fail.  

P.S. Did you know he owns $1.0B in Amazon stock? Lots of eggs in that basket. This is another gamble,  Will it succeed. Cuban loves the challenge.

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