It’s exactly the advice your mother didn’t give you, unless your mom was a rule-breaker like my mine. Fear means go. This was one of my mom’s favorite principles. She said it when I was petrified to go to school for the first time; she said it when I was going to be on live television and was nervous I had nothing valuable to say. She believed fear was a compass — an indicator of the direction you should go in if you want to become the person you have the potential to be.