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From: Tuesday Night Talk on Reporting<\/strong><\/p>\n

If a man was going to invent something, he could never work on it unless he was free to have a bunch of experiments that wouldn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

So if we wanted to invent something, paint a picture, write a story, learn an instrument, run a business of some sort or other, the first necessity is that we\u2019re free to fail.\u00a0 Then we are free to go ahead and do it.<\/p>\n

In running an experiment or in any endeavor one wants to do, one has to be absolutely free to fizzle \u2013 FAIL.\u00a0 Now the first rule that comes along if you\u2019re interested in being successful at anything whether it is being happy, peaceful, or makin\u2019 millions of dollars is to be free to fail because when you\u2019re not free to fail, you can\u2019t function.\u00a0 You are trying to find all the ways to be safe; and there isn\u2019t anything you might want to do where there isn\u2019t some risk involved.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So if we\u2019re free to fail at anything, then you discover you can function.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not free to fail, you have to take so many precautions you\u2019ll never get started.\u00a0 I heard of a man who wasn\u2019t free to have any discomfort occur to him, so he begin to build a tower.\u00a0 He kept building it up and building it up; but he could still see that danger could come from above, so he finally completely enclosed it over on top as a dome.\u00a0 He had lots of bricks and mortar inside and he completely closed it over.\u00a0 Now he couldn\u2019t have any doors and windows in this thing because danger can come through those too, you know.\u00a0 So of course, when he got it all sealed up — you can imagine that very shortly he used up all the air in there and he smothered!<\/p>\n

Now if you are not free to take a risk, there is very little chance of doing anything of profit because profit is what you get paid for by taking a risk.\u00a0 So the source of anxiety is basically the attempt to be non-disturbed.\u00a0 When you start thinking about how you are going to avoid any possibility of disapproval, rejection or feeling insignificant what happens to you?<\/p>\n

(I get anxious and sometimes that leads to sickness.)<\/p>\n

But anytime you\u2019re in the pit it\u2019s because you\u2019re afraid of taking a risk.\u00a0 Now a man called me a little while ago and said that he was in a state of fear over something he needed to do.\u00a0 So he was going to quit because he didn\u2019t wanna be fearful.\u00a0 That\u2019s a bad thing to have, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Well now, did any of you just deliberately feel free to be fearful this week? So you can really do your thing \u2013 be as fearful as you can.\u00a0 Really do the thing.\u00a0\u00a0 Betty said she really was free to be fearful and it just went away.<\/p>\n

When you really set your mind to deliberately be anxious, the anxiety says \u201cWell to hell with you\u00a0\u00a0 — you won\u2019t run.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s very freeing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So you see it really hasn\u2019t or isn\u2019t any great power if one feels free to have a little fear; but somehow or other we have become very fearful of feeling fearful; and we get very angry about feelin\u2019 angry; and we get very resentful about feeling a little resentment.\u00a0 Now if you\u2019re free to feel those things, what happens?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really all right to feel fear; but you see the first thing when we feel a little touch of fear, we\u00a0 begin \u2013 \u201cHow am I gonna rid of it right now!\u201d — like it was the plague or something.\u00a0 It really won\u2019t hurt you. \u00a0\u00a0You know it really doesn\u2019t do a thing to you.\u00a0 Have you ever been disappointed?\u00a0 It didn\u2019t kill you all these years. You\u2019re still functioning, is that right?\u00a0 So if you\u2019re free to be disappointed, why it\u2019s all right.\u00a0 You ever been free to have any feeling you had?\u00a0 I mean the ones that kind of let you know you really have an emotion, not the ones that you purr with when you\u2019ve been well fed or something.<\/p>\n

So perhaps that could be an experiment to run today and maybe even two or three days or a week.\u00a0\u00a0 We are all grown up adults now; and it\u2019s very liberating when we discover that we can be perfectly free to feel any emotion.\u00a0 They haven\u2019t killed you or destroyed you or put wrinkles on your face or anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

So all of a sudden instead of being fearful, you can be very serene.\u00a0 But you know we fight fear.\u00a0 Some of us eat and some of us drink and some of us smoke and some of us do some other things to keep from feeling fearful.<\/p>\n

So are you perfectly free to feel fearful?\u00a0 Well let\u2019s start right now.\u00a0 You\u2019ve felt it; so if you\u2019re gonna feel it, you might as well do it gracefully and politely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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