A conversation

"I can understand now how passion is important for running a business."
Me: "Yeh, passion is kind of like the counterbalancing force to fear isn't it?"
"Yes"
Me: "So without passion, you are left with...fear alone!"

Me: "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?"
"I'm slightly more of a pessimist, because knowing things aren't right makes me want to take actions and do things to change them."

"I think it's healthy to feel a bit scared; to allow your survival instinct to kick in. Many people I know who lived their life too safely ended up complaining about how life is boring; how they don't feel passionate and alive, and how they felt lost and meaninglessness."

"Feeling danger might be something that's essential to our biological system; it might be necessary for us to feel a bit scared in order to grow and achieve a sense of fulfillment."