In troubled times, histrionic people are not your allies. Whether you are right to worry or not, giving in to fear does more harm than good.
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Just in the same way as anger can feed out-of-control panic or rage, it can drive you towards effective action.
So too with fear.
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Being driven, buffeted, pushed on by pain, fear or anger is little better than being hateful scum from a pragmatic point of view.
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What you want is a response where anger, fear or pain becomes a trigger for calm focus - a tell that it's time to shut up and put up.
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If your emotional responses are well-calibrated, then anger, fear and pain all imply that you should either do something or retreat fast.
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These emotions that are supposed to save your life, telling you to fight or flee. Treat them accordingly.
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These are very serious emotions that should either be responded to with control (if inappropriate) or action (if appropriate).
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