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.