How to Train the Fearless Mind

The scientific way to control your fight-or-flight instincts

John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister
Forge
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10 min readJan 8, 2020

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Base jumper diving  down into a valley.
Photo: Oliver Furrer/Photographer’s Choice RF/Getty Images

BBefore Felix Baumgartner aspired to leap off a balloon capsule 24 miles above Earth, he was already known to his fans as Fearless Felix. He had jumped off the two highest buildings in the world and skydived across the English Channel wearing a carbon‐fiber wing. He had stood at the rim of a 600‐foot‐deep cave…

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John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister
Forge
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Bestselling authors of ‘Willpower’ (2011) and ‘The Power of Bad’ (2019).