Workout for a fearless muscle

Last year, I stumbled upon an interesting quote by Arianna Huffington:

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

It's a beautiful quote. And there is nothing as affirming in life as when you feel that you have exercised your fearlessness and feel that after having been outside of your comfort zone, you have expanded both fearlessness and comfort zone. We should do it more often.
Obviously, it should not lead to stupidity without care. As it was said in the movie "After Earth": "Danger is very real, but fear is a choice." And there is reason to relate rationally to the specific danger and disregard the fear.
(Translated from "Workout for en frygtløs muskel", originally published February 15th, 2016)

On the topic of being able to fly

It was supposedly Ray Bradbury, who once said that

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

It reminds me of an incident I was involved in recently, when a person present felt that the initiative we had started out to set the rules for could be compared to cutting the branch on which we were sitting.
As it happened, I did not quite share the point of view, which led me to the other extreme, stating that "Well, let's see. I do not think that we are cutting our own branch. But if we are - who knows, maybe we'll find that we can fly?"
The outcome is still undecided, as the points of view unchanged. Until the moment when at high speed I simply hit the ground, I am in the - for me quite uncharacteristical - situation that I am foolhardily convinced that I'm right.
(Translated from Noget om at kunne flyve, originally posted June 26, 2016)