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Let go of safety behaviors when we have to do something that scares us.

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We often incorporate behaviors that are intended to prevent what we are afraid of from happening.

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For example, if we are afraid of going blank while giving a dog, we might try it out and read our

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whole presentation.

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Other examples include keeping our hands in our pockets in social situations in case our hands shake

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of being overly cautious to avoid offending anyone traveling with a companion only because of an anxiety

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triple checking an email for mistakes before sending it.

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There are two main problems with safety behaviors.

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First, they teach us that.

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But for the safety behavior, things could have turned out really badly, thus perpetuating their behaviors

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and our fears.

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Second, they can't actually impair our performance as when a capable speaker is overly reliant on notes

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which prevents them from engaging with the audience.

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In reality, the many of our safety behaviors are useless, but we never realize it if we always use

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them.

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We can combine testing our predictions with dropping safety behaviors to directly test whether they're

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are necessary.