Understanding Fear: The key to a brighter future

ISBN: 1907962247

Author: Stoute, Dick

Condition: New

If we are to be as happy and fulfilled as possible we need to fully acknowledge the role that fear plays in our lives. Stoute claims that crime, aggression, mental violence, and physical violence, all have a common underlying cause; they all arise from fear. Increasing our individual mental health requires first accepting fear and then overcoming it; Stoute shows us how to do this. Improving the human social realm - reducing violence and war - requires changing the fear-dominated structures that underpin society; these structures are embedded in what Stoute calls the 'war paradigm'. By accepting the ways in which fear shapes our individual lives, and the role it has played in shaping our social structures, we are able to change ourselves, restructure society and move to a better and brighter future. Stoute outlines how this can be done, how we can move from the war paradigm to the learning paradigm. The learning paradigm leads to individual self-development; it also leads to more effective and productive businesses and other social structures.CONTENTS1 Our War Paradigm2 Social Responses to Fear3 The Hierarchy of Fear4 Fearful Myths5 Summary: Where we are coming from. Where we are now. Where we are going6 Psycho Fractals7 Goals8 War Paradigm to Learning Paradigm9 The Learning Paradigm10 Strategy for the Learning Paradigm