Comments on: The Fear http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_11/ Meditations on strategy and life Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: PCD http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_11/#comment-9362 PCD Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:10:28 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-fear/#comment-9362 Maj, Scare tactics work on some, but I think it creates a sense of resentment. I'm doing my job well and you decide to randomly fire me? WTF? As soon as a better or even equal option comes along, I'm jumping ship. As far as beating the fear, I don't think anyone suggested it would be easy. Maj,

Scare tactics work on some, but I think it creates a sense of resentment. I’m doing my job well and you decide to randomly fire me? WTF? As soon as a better or even equal option comes along, I’m jumping ship.

As far as beating the fear, I don’t think anyone suggested it would be easy.

]]> By: MajPearson http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_11/#comment-9361 MajPearson Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:43:36 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-fear/#comment-9361 Rockefeller's father used to fire people completely randomly, then rehire them a couple of weeks later, just to let them know they weren't indispensable. Without the fear of losing their job, workers work less, and you get France. Don't get me wrong, I understand you're also talking about not fearing losing one's job because you'd always know you'd be all right, but then, you really can't always know that. I also get that you're trying to say people can take control of their lives when they throw away the fear, and I think you're correct about that. But then, beating that fear, like beating the fear of death, the unknown, any fear, really, is difficult, and requires a surrender most people can't make. Rockefeller’s father used to fire people completely randomly, then rehire them a couple of weeks later, just to let them know they weren’t indispensable. Without the fear of losing their job, workers work less, and you get France.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand you’re also talking about not fearing losing one’s job because you’d always know you’d be all right, but then, you really can’t always know that.

I also get that you’re trying to say people can take control of their lives when they throw away the fear, and I think you’re correct about that. But then, beating that fear, like beating the fear of death, the unknown, any fear, really, is difficult, and requires a surrender most people can’t make.

]]> By: Brennan http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_11/#comment-9360 Brennan Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:01:00 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-fear/#comment-9360 I hear where you're coming from. Whenever I get that feeling it feels like a combination of two things. One, I feel a huge sense of empowerment. And two, I become insanely focused. Similar to the feeling you get during a really awesome run when you start getting tunnel vision. I can easily say that the combination of these two feelings at once is probably the greatest thing imaginable. I hear where you’re coming from. Whenever I get that feeling it feels like a combination of two things. One, I feel a huge sense of empowerment. And two, I become insanely focused. Similar to the feeling you get during a really awesome run when you start getting tunnel vision. I can easily say that the combination of these two feelings at once is probably the greatest thing imaginable.

]]> By: Matt http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_11/#comment-9359 Matt Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:26:43 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-fear/#comment-9359 It seems to me those are all secondary effects though, and as far as I can tell they flow out of something that has nothing to do with rationality. We can think about it all we want but we might never find the answer unless we start looking a different way. It seems to me those are all secondary effects though, and as far as I can tell they flow out of something that has nothing to do with rationality. We can think about it all we want but we might never find the answer unless we start looking a different way.

]]> By: Tony http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_11/#comment-9358 Tony Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:05:53 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-fear/#comment-9358 Short and simple. Yet the message is fucking sick because its so powerful. It one thing to read it. Yet if people actually put these concepts into use ACTIONS in their lives, I know the world would be vastly different. The world would open up to those that consistently practiced these ideas! So simple - so powerful. Short and simple. Yet the message is fucking sick because its so powerful. It one thing to read it. Yet if people actually put these concepts into use ACTIONS in their lives, I know the world would be vastly different. The world would open up to those that consistently practiced these ideas! So simple – so powerful.

]]> By: Blank http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_11/#comment-9357 Blank Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:27:48 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-fear/#comment-9357 Ahahaha, then you'd have a scenario like in Office Space. Ahahaha, then you’d have a scenario like in Office Space.

]]> By: Sean McGrath http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_11/#comment-9356 Sean McGrath Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:09:49 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-fear/#comment-9356 You have a knack for writing exactly what I need to read, exactly when I need to read it. Thank you. You have a knack for writing exactly what I need to read, exactly when I need to read it.

Thank you.

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