Nerve by Taylor Clark is a great read. It is an entertaining and insightful look into fear. He shares some key methods to deal with fear, anxiety, and stress. I didn’t say overcome fear because our fears are here to stay (for the most part). The hero’s of the world acknowledge the fear and move forward with it.

Lesson #5: Mindfully Disentangle from worries and anxious thoughts.
“We know now that worry does us no good, yet trying to stop our fretting altogether is well nigh impossible…Evelyn Behar, the worry expert, suggests two paths for detaching from this internal chirping. One is to take the mindfulness route: the more you learn to simply watch your worries and let them coast by without getting entangled with them, the more you see them and their predictable patterns as if from far above. ‘Or,’ behar continued,’you can postpone worry. You write a worry down and agree that later on you can worry about it for thirty minutes, which frees you up to focus on the moment.'”