Mar 16, 2024
187. Is Fear Running Your Life?
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.