Overcoming a fear of death starts with acknowledging the fear of life. During high school, I would regularly lie awake at night, haunted by thoughts of death. I would sweat profusely, imagining myself ...

Writing is much like a high ropes course, Weston Morrow said. It’s about overcoming fear — fear of the blank page, of being misunderstood, of writing badly, of being vulnerable.

After publishing more than 100 articles in scientific journals, Álex Gómez Marín has shut down his animal lab and now works ...

It’s happened again. Another person I love has died. When I joined the Department of Justice, as the decade rolled into 1990, I was the youngest federal prosecutor in the Detroit office of more than a ...

Millions struggle with an intense fear of something that poses little or no threat, from flying to cockroaches to a trip to ...

James D. Watson, who at just 25 helped uncover the double-helix structure of DNA, a discovery that transformed modern science ...

Once you start to see it, you see it everywhere. First, there is the spectacle of Bryan Johnson, who is spending millions to stay young, injecting his son’s blood plasma into his veins, ...

Many psychoanalysts believe that there exists a series of "calamities of childhood" that must be overcome, or adults must ...

Fear of Spiders Won't Actually Kill You Picture this: you see a tiny spider in the corner of your room and suddenly you're standing on a chair screaming. Arachnophobia affects roughly three to six ...

Peter Thiel (who has said that “regulating AI hastens the antichrist”) provided early funding for Yudkowsky’s Machine ...

Fear, while often seen as a primal instinct meant to protect us, can sometimes lead us down paths of sheer irrationality. It's that gut-wrenching emotion that overrides logic and pushes us to make ...