11 JANUARY 2024 WorldWide Drilling Resource® The Un-Comfort Zone II by Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. Eliminate Fear with Creativity We are inundated in Fear Porn every day. Fear is doled out by the government to keep people dependent on it. Advertisers peddle fear to keep people buying their products and services; while media outlets lead with it to build audiences and sell more ad space. Doomsayers, prognosticators, and conspiracy theorists spread it to gather followers and create audiences for their products and services. Every day in the media we are exposed to negative news and scary stories that make us anxious or worse, including: Political Fear: government corruption, political division, civil unrest, political violence. War Fear: nuclear war, biological war, EMP attack (electromagnetic pulse), terrorism, another World War. Health Fear: disease, injury, inadequate health care, poor access to health care, high costs. Financial Fear: economic collapse, inflation, recession, stock market crash, high interest rates. Environmental Fear: air and water pollution, earthquake, flood, hurricane, drought, wildfires. Employment Fear: layoffs, job loss to automation, not having enough money to pay bills, debt. Crime Fear: scams, identity theft, home invasion, mugging, carjacking, mass shooting. The simplest solution is to tune out the fear by turning off your TV and avoiding the news. When you can’t avoid negative news, creativity can help you deal with the fear. When you develop your creative thinking skills you will begin to see things in different ways, including new paths away from what is scaring you. There are six keys to developing your creativity. Each of them is necessary to solve problems and generate new ideas. Maybe you will create a new plan to end corruption; or a new technique to clean the environment; or a new method for increasing prosperity; or a new strategy to keep people safe. Developing these skills and habits will liberate you from your fear because they empower you to do more and be more. Some of these keys are skills while others are habits, but all of them contribute to a creative mind. The Six Keys to Creativity 1. Using Curiosity creatively is when your inquisitivity guides you to look for new connections or when you combine two or more existing concepts into a new idea. Curiosity is wondering what a different world might look like - and then thinking about how you might achieve it. Perhaps it’s a world without so many alarming issues in it; where people unite in peaceful consensual exchange instead of engaging in force or fraud. 2. Questioning Authority is all about challenging the status quo. Critical thinking is a first step in creativity because it encourages you to question the way things are done. You might ask questions like: “Why do we do things this way?” “Wouldn’t it be better if we tried doing it another way?” Creativity develops your critical thinking skills, so you are less likely to be troubled and bamboozled by charlatans. 3. Trying New Things such as exposing yourself to new experiences and different viewpoints. By opening your mind to new stimuli, you literally lay down new neural pathways in your brain. It’s called neuroplasticity, and when you learn or experience something new you create new electrical connections between brain cells, opening new channels of thought. Then, when you are confronted by problems (scary Wilson Cont’d on page 14. Time for a Little Fun! December Puzzle Solution: Unscramble the letters in Column A to form a five-letter word for Column B, then remove a letter to form a four-letter word for Column C without changing the letter order. Win a prize! Send completed puzzle to: WWDR PO Box 660 Bonifay, FL 32425 fax: 850-547-0329 or e-mail: michele@ worldwidedrillingresource.com A B C ODARB _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ STURT _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ITSNT _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SLOGS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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