The Paradox of Fear. How the Obsession with Safety Gets in the Way of Living

We come into this world just as helpless as the first person on bare, unsafe ground—and, endowed with a unique gift of imagination, we are capable of populating our personal future with many real and imagined threats. That very most powerful, productive, creative ability—thanks to which Homo Sapience owes all its inventions, from the stick for digging to nuclear energy and artificial intelligence—turns into the main obstacle on the path to self-fulfillment. It becomes a source of stress, phobias, and epidemics of anxiety disorders. In trying to prevent possible dangers, we—as individuals and society—can literally deprive ourselves of the future.

How to face your fears, understand what causes them, protect your inner child, look into the darkness and—through it—see potential possibilities, is what the author talks about.