 Fear is an incredibly powerful emotion It captures our attention like no other emotion can We focus intensely on the thing that is giving us that fear Secondly it shuts down higher thinking When we re terrified by a bump in the night we don t focus on the probability that it s just the wind Our critical thinking skills dip as we focus solely on protecting ourselves Thirdly it feels crappy so the fastest way to get out of fear and move toward a powerful emotion is to move into anger 