Running towards your fear is generally a good strategy even if you're not a CEO running a company. It's particularly relevant for young adults just starting th

Running towards your fear is generally a good strategy even if you're not a CEO running a company. It's particularly relevant for young adults just starting their careers out of college: there's a very strong tendency to not want to make hard choices about what you want your life to look like, which avenues will you close off, and what you put your effort into despite not knowing whether it'll ever pay off, but people who avoid those choices get to 40 and then find that not only has their life not amounted to much so far, but everybody they meet expects that their life will never amount to much and writes them off. The reason it's a good idea is because it forces you to really confront your feelings, examine the present moment, and identify which are rational and which are assumptions that you were just raised with. If you run away from your fear you'll always be boxed into the path that you were on in high school; if you run towards it you have the option to really decide what you want your life to look like.