187. Is Fear Running Your Life?
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How can you summon courage when you’re terrified? Is hiking more dangerous than skiing? And what is the stupidest thing that Mike has ever done?

• SOURCES:

• Albert Bandura), professor of psychology at Stanford University.

• Marc Brackett), founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and professor in the Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine.

• Lisa Damour), clinical psychologist and senior advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University.

• Christopher Peterson), professor of psychology and organizational studies at the University of Michigan.

• Stanley Rachman), professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

• Mikaela Shiffrin), Olympic alpine skier.

• Lindsey Vonn), Olympic alpine skier.

• Shaun White), Olympic snowboarder.

• Joseph Wolpe), 20th-century South African psychiatrist.

• RESOURCES:

• The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents)*, *by Lisa Damour (2023).

• "What Scares the World’s Most Daring Olympians)," by John Branch, Mark Boyer, Larry Buchanan, Emily Rhyne, Bedel Saget, Joe Ward, and Jeremy White (*The New York Times, *2022).

• "The Upside of Anxiety)," by Christina Caron (*The New York Times, *2022).

• Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive)*, *by Marc Brackett (2019).

• "World With No Fear)," by *Invisibilia *(2015).

• Abū Zayd Al-Balkhī''s Sustenance of the Soul: The Cognitive Behavior Therapy of a Ninth Century Physician), by Malik Badri (2013).

• "Searching for the Source of a Fountain of Courage)," by Natalie Angier (*The New York Times, *2011).

• Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification)*, *by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman (2004).

• Fear and Courage)*, *by Stanley Rachman (1978).

• "Relative Efficacy of Desensitization and Modeling Approaches for Inducing Behavioral, Affective, and Attitudinal Changes)," by Albert Bandura, E. B. Blahard, and B. Ritter (*Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, *1969).

• EXTRAS:

• "Fear No Mort)," S7.E10 of *Rick and Morty *(2023).

• "Can Fear Be Good Medicine?)" by *Freakonomics, M.D. *(2022).

• How We Feel)*, *smartphone app.