Merlin Mann
Scared Shitless: How I (Mostly) Learned to Love Being Afraid of Pretty Much Everything
Comments (9)
Authentic in every word. Thank you. I loved it!
Posted: Wed 30 Mar 2011 9:04 a.m.
Thank you Merlin. For everything.
Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2011 7:26 a.m.
Thank you for sharing this. You are truly inspiring, Merlin. It's inarguable that you have found your niché.
Posted: Fri 01 Apr 2011 1:18 p.m.
Merlin.
You are very inspiring, and have great energy. I wish everyone could be as self honest and real and honest as you are doing in this presentation.
What I wanted to say is that a great deal of our fear, let's say over 80% of it is imaginary, conjured by our personal minds, we've all experienced this right? Its destructive, its operating nearly constantly, affecting us a lot of the time and its unhealthy.
But that there is a natural caution we also all have and that caution is built in. But its built in to save our lives, to alert us to danger. A recent discovery of mine was how much of the time I was caught up in destructive imagination and how little I was engaged in the moment, present, in a still-mind kind a of state, where I could accurately read and respond to the caution vs. the destructive imagination you spoke to so eloquently here.
The destructive imagination or FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) that prevents us from moving. From growing, from changing, from stepping outside our preferences, fears, and comfort zones in life, to really engage with life and our true abilities, our true relationships, and our true direction in life.
We're at a critical time of change right now on the planet. Some of us here have and are feeling that, in growing numbers. Clearly something some marker back there, some line in the sand, of permanent change was passed. Given that, some of our fear, is feeling that change, but not responding and really getting honest about what we are really doing here on this planet, at this time of such unprecedented change.
What is the thing that we need to see now? What is the next step I need to see?
Here are 2 links that helped me to wake up to callings in the world, that were aching for me to learn of them, to experience them, and to begin to respond to them, with my deeper mind, the second mind, the mind that does not think, it Knows. And it is this mind that was impacted by what you said here sir.
I feel you spoke from that mind. But more importantly, you inspired others to look and listen and feel with the deeper mind of Knowledge, the deeper experience of Knowledge, the deeper feelings of the deeper spiritual intelligence of Knowledge, the mind that God put within us, at birth, to navigate the world that we have find ourselves in now.
A world of decline.
I hope you will take a moment to experience, with a still mind and an open heart, the links below:
http://whyarethingsfalling.blip.tv/#1325125
http://blip.tv/file/1374311
http://www.newmessage.org/steps
http://www.greatwavesofhcange.org
Posted: Tue 25 Oct 2011 12:38 a.m.
Good message, but why the need to be vulgar and crass?
Our civil society isn't so civil anymore.
Posted: Thu 08 Dec 2011 3:03 a.m.
Oh my God, just a second...
What you all are saying is like an ass licking
Merlin my brother, my opinion is that you've been drunken at this kind of a lecture, nevertheless no one here understood what you wanted to express in your speech. Actually that was fun... just for that thank you!
Posted: Sat 07 Jan 2012 6:19 a.m.
Amazed that some of the commenters here just don't get it... maybe come back in a fews years, *after* life has kicked your guts out... you might just appreciate it.
Thanks Merlin!
Posted: Tue 24 Jan 2012 2:35 p.m.
George mate, harden up, it's 2012. When did civility become defined by lilywhite speech?
Posted: Thu 26 Jan 2012 9:31 a.m.
Nick Bellinger
This was absolutely brilliant and I was totally inspired.
Thank you.
Posted: Wed 30 Mar 2011 5:30 a.m.