Are you afraid of the unknown, or are you afraid of your thoughts of the unknown? We get all bent out of shape about things we know next to nothing about. When somebody challenges us, we pretend to know more than we do and we lean on the “well the people in the news said X” or we go with the old line “everybody knows X is true!” and we think this is a good way to reason and argue our point.
The truth is usually that we’re simply scared of what we think the unknown contains and everything else is an excuse. But it’s difficult to be honest with yourself, we’ve all grown up lying about who we are and what we are to almost everybody around us.
If you can be honest with yourself, you can force yourself to confront more fears and become a much stronger and anti-fragile person.