Are you Beining Scared or Excited?

In a psychological experiment, an attractive women interviewed a group of men in two different location and gave them her phone number with the instruction to call her if they had any follow up questions or comments. One of the locations was a bridge up in the mountains and the study found that the participants on the bridge called her back with a much higher frequency. The conclusion appears to be that the men experienced an adrenaline rush caused by the high-altitude location and apparently associated their 'excitement' with sexual attraction towards the female interviewer.

I remembered that study the other day when I had a stressful day at work. I had important investment decisions to make and suddenly perceived an emotion in me that felt like fear. But when I thought about it some more I realized that this sentiment could easily be excitement as well. I honestly couldn't tell whether I felt fear or excitement at that time.

Fear is an ugly emotion, but you know what, fear is anticipated pain. When you are truly open to the experience you will be surprised. The hero is born by the situation. You are thrown into a situation and life communicates to you at this moment, 'Well, you don't really have a choice my friend.' So you feel the fear and do it anyway and somehow after the first dragon is slain the second doesn't look so scary anymore. Then one day you actually eagerly anticipate the now and from there on fear will just be another emotion that comes and goes in a heart-beat.