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Bodily Functions Will Resume Shortly

I finished writing the Dream Year weekend notebook on Sunday (whew =) and couldn’t help but include this ESPN interview with Malcolm Gladwell about defying your fears

“I talked for a long time when I was doing Blink with a fascinating guy named Gavin DeBecker, who runs one of the top personal security agencies in Los Angeles. Basically, if you’re a movie star or a billionaire or the Sultan of Brunei, he provides you with your bodyguard.

“DeBecker talked a lot about how rigorously he trains his people. If the quality of our coordination and instinctive reactions breaks down when our heart rate gets above 145, he wants to expose his people to stressful situations over and over and over again until they can face them at 130, 110 or 90. So he fires bullets at people, and does these utterly terrifying exercises involving angry pit bulls.

“The first and second and third and fourth time you run through one of DeBecker’s training sessions, you basically lose control of your bowels and take off like a scalded cat. By the fifth time, essential bodily functions start to return. By the 10th time, you can function as a normal human being.”

When you act on your dreams, of course you’ll be scared to death. But if you keep trying, eventually, you’ll be able to function as a normal human being.