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Day 389 the cold water stopped scaring me, and that is the day it stopped being a courage challenge. Clinicians call the mechanism exposure therapy: repeat the thing that frightens you until the fear drains out, then climb to the next rung.
Featuring: Maya Angelou, Jia Jiang, Barbra Streisand, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sara Solovitch
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Chapters:
(00:00) Courage grows or shrinks
(00:06) A cold shower streak to day 389
(00:35) Jia Jiang's 100 days of rejection
(01:06) UCLA's fear ladder protocol
(01:35) Barbra Streisand's 27 year stage fright
(02:02) Sara Solovitch returns to the piano at 60
(02:28) Reps until fear stops registering
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