Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

Don’t Solve for Fear

Daily Chase #252

May 07, 2026
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We’ve been treating the wrong problem.

For most of us, fear is the diagnosis. It shows up in the boardroom, in the gym, in the quiet moments before a hard conversation. We try to overcome it, push through it, build confidence to fight it. We treat fear like the disease.

But fear is just the symptom.

The real root, as the a…

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