The Grandmaster of Gaslighting: Why Your Fear is a Blundering Opponent
We’ve all been there. It’s 3:00 AM, the house is silent, and suddenly your brain decides it’s the perfect time to host a film festival of your greatest potential failures. The "What-If" International Film Festival is now in session, and the headlining feature is The Day the Bank Account Hit Zero and Everyone I Ever Liked Laughed Simultaneously. Fear. It’s that uninvited guest who shows up to your mental dinner party, eats all the appetizers, insults your life choices, and refuses to leave the couch. It grips us, whispers doubts, and paralyzes action. But here’s the cosmic joke: we spend exponentially more mental energy dreading a future event than we ever spend actually dealing with it. Buy Now: 40 Essential Strategies from the Chessboard to the Real World If fear were a contractor, it would be the guy who quotes you $10,000 for a leaky faucet and tells you the entire foundation of your house is made of crackers. It’s a master of hyperbole, a drama queen of the highest order...