FEARFUL OR ANXIOUS?

You’re nervously boarding a plane for vacation, but the only thing taking “flight” is your fear as a squadron of what-if ’s whiz through your head. If only you were as excited as the child in the next aisle happily asking her mom a million questions about your destination. “Fear curbs curiosity,” says Hamilton. “It closes us off to new experiences, and prevents us from taking the kinds of risks that expand our world.”