TED Radio Hour

Addiction, motherhood and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott

I think it really molded me into a person who had a lot of fear about whether or not the world was even safe. The world never felt safe to me from kindergarten on because I got bullied so much, and I responded by getting a sense of humor.

Radiolab

This American Roach

And, like every other time she has come into contact with a roach, this sent her into a debilitating spiral of fear, anger, and disgust.

EconTalk

Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)

When Junger nearly died from a ruptured artery, he experienced something unexpected: he saw his dead father, and felt completely calm and unafraid. The experience didn't make him religious, but it made him think that the human brain may have evolved to make death easier — that the terror of dying may be much less than the terror of anticipating it.

Code Switch

Why so many Americans never learned to swim

The whole goal I think of just like being in the water is just like for me has always been stay alive. And then I see other people that are like having fun and I'm like oh that's like a whole another level of interaction with this thing that I have never even considered.

TED Idea Search

Which Idea Wins Over 4,000 People? | Amman | TED Idea Search

Once you see that there's great things on the other side of fear, you never want to go back.

Fresh Air

Jamilah Lemieux on the complicated beauty of being a ‘Black. Single. Mother.’

I was afraid that if I wrote that book, I was going to be a black single mother for the rest of my life. But also, as I wrote this book, I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence, it's not doom.

TED

“Stripped of the emotional component, fear is simply information” @MichelleKhare #TEDTalks

Stripped of the emotional component, fear is simply information. It tells us exactly what we need to know in order to progress.