The Fear Opportunity

**'Gets to the beating heart of handling fear - and turns it from being a dreaded weight to a potent weapon.' - Bear Grylls 'Brilliant and inspiring.' - Ben Fogle** Do you want to increase your confidence, feel less anxious and get more out of life? In this clear, practical book, Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton shows how much you stand to gain by doing small things that scare you and reframing your relationship with fear. This philosophy didn’t just drive her to gold medals; it powered her through huge challenges from training as a jump jockey to attempting to climb Everest. But Victoria – alongside the neuroscientists, researchers and psychologists she interviews – is clear that the lessons she’s learned from her extreme experiences can be easily applied to your everyday life. Packed with clear takeaways and relatable examples, The Fear Opportunity is a guide to transforming your fears into fuel for discovering what you’re really capable of, what you really care about and for living your richest, most expansive life. Plus, Victoria examines five common major fears and unpacks how altering the way you see them can transform your life: Failure – can be understood as a bridge to improvement and a way to understand your intrinsic worth, whether you succeed or not Change – a doorway to exciting new opportunities and a chance to uncover what it is you really care about The unknown – leaning into uncertainty can make you more creative, curious and better able to navigate life’s ups and downs Being different – in reality, fear of standing out is often a desire to connect and belong; acting on that instead will have clear and pleasurable benefits Death – perhaps the ultimate fear, and the ultimate call to appreciate everything life has to offer, while we have it Packed with examples and clear takeaways, The Fear Opportunity is a life-affirming toolkit for positively channeling fear, using it to discover everything you’re capable of, and understand what matters to you most.