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.

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