BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lee Chambers Presents "\;How To Conquer Anything"\; - Lee Chambers MSc MBPsS DTSTART:20200604T100000Z DTEND:20200604T110000Z UID:TALK143875@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Lee Chambers MBPsS DESCRIPTION:Here at Cambridge\, we always encourage our students to learn and develop themselves in a variety of areas of life. \n\nA select number of psychology students have the chance to meet Lee and sample an excerpt f rom the upcoming book 'How To Conquer Anything'\, by "Lee Chambers":https: //leechambers.org\, MSc Environmental Psychologist and Wellbeing Consultan t from the University of Surrey. He is also the founder of "Essentialise": https://www.essentialise.co.uk\n\nHe is also hosted a webinar for another group of students which was certainly insightful in these challenging time s. Below is a sample from the chapter on fear\, with permission from Mr Ch ambers.\n\nThe first big idea is the heartbeat of optimizing. This class c ould have\nbeen called Courage 101\, Conquering Fear 101\, Courage 101\, b ut we've\ngot to remember that Aristotle's number one virtue when he tells us\nthat the meaning of life is to basically reach our potential to live as a\neudaimon\, have a good soul to be the best version of ourselves.\nYo u do that by living with virtue and the number one virtue? Courage.\nIt's the heartbeat of optimizing. The heartbeat of you becoming the best\nversi on of you. I say heartbeat because the word courage comes from\nthe Latin word that means heart. Just as your heart vitalizes your arms\nand legs an d other organs\, vital organs\, courage vitalizes the other\nvirtues.\nWe' re also going to talk about a great quote from a guy name Stan\nBeecham\, leading modern day mental toughness coach. He says\, "Fear is\nstanding in the way of you reaching your potential. Therefore\,\nconquering fear shou ld be your number one priority. Your primary goal\nin life." Powerful stuf f\, we'll talk about that more.\nSecond big idea. When we want to conquer fear is to know that it's not\njust you. You're not alone. I wish someone told me when I was five years\nold and 15 years old and 25 and 35 that it' s not about me being me\, as\nmy old coach Steve Chen would used to say\, it's about me being human.\nWe all experience fear as David Reynolds says\ , a Zen psychotherapist\,\n"Anybody who says they're never afraid is both and I quote stupid and\nlying."\nCommon humanity. We all experience fear. Let's quit shaming ourselves\,\nwe will talk about that more. The third bi g idea is to seek. We're going\nto look at the etymology of the word conqu er. “Con” + “quer.” Two latin\nwords. Basically it means to succes sfully seek. That's what conquest\nmeans\, conquer means. To successfully seek.\nThe “quer” part of it means to seek. If we want to conquer fear \,\nparadoxically\, we need to seek fear. We need to quit avoiding things\ nthat freak us out and lean into them\, approach them as psychologists\nwo uld say. We're going to talk about the importance of that and walking\nthr ough fear doors\, an idea we talked about in greatest fear over 2019.\nThe fourth big idea\, we want to become master alchemists. The subtitle\nfor the class is alchemizing fear into excitement. That energy you feel\nwhen you feel fear is neutral energy until you put meaning on it. We\nwant to u se that neutral energy to our advantage by alchemizing it.\nWe're actually going to reference Paulo Coelho in his Alchemist.\nA couple of great quot es in there. He says\, "You've got a mission in life\nand the only thing t hat's standing in the way of making it possible is\nyour fear of failure." We want to become master alchemists using every\nmoment to move from fear to excitement. Those little micro moments\nof stepping through those fear doors are going to give us the power we\nneed to reach our potential. LOCATION: Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR