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eels, but Im not sure we spend enough time thinking about what our fears mean. As we grow up, were often encouraged to think of fear as a weakness, just another childish thing to discard like baby teeth or roller skates. And I think its no accident that we think this way. Neuroscientists have actually shown that human beings are hardwired to be optimists. So maybe thats why we think of fear, sometimes, as a danger in and of itself. Dont worry, we like to say to one another. Dont panic. In English, fear is something we conquer. Its something we fight. Its something we overe. But what if we looked at fear in a fresh way? What if we thought of fear as an amazing act of the imagination, something that can be as profound and insightful as storytelling itself? Its easiest to see this link between fear and the imagination in young children, whose fears are often extraordinarily vivid. When I was a child, I lived in California, which is, you know, mostly a very nice place to live, but for me as a child, California could also be a little scary. I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table s