I fear there is a general misconception about describing the theme of fear around here.
Everyone fears.
Not everyone shows it in the same way.
If someone faces an adverse situation and acts to overcome it, is it overcoming your fear, or having no fear?
Only dead people know no fear.
Allow me to provide an example.
As a child I was never taught to ride a bicycle.
Upon the age of 12 I was send to a specific summer camp.
There it was made clear to me, that within the 3 weeks I was to spend there, a bicycle trip was to be a part of the whole experience.
I didn't dread the experience of being proven to be unable to ride the bicycle (wink, wink), but knowing the childish atmosphere persistent within such environments, I didn't want to show any weakness to my peers.
My solution was to break my leg, thus providing myself with an excuse. To achieve this I climbed a tree and jumped to the ground from a height of about 5 meters.
The problem with my attempt was that I climbed trees and jumped from them from a very early age, allowing me to develop an instinct for providing a soft landing to my body (I abuse that ability to this day, being 35 and still jumping off significant heights and landing on concrete without any damage. Eventually I will break a bone in my body). In addition to this, the landing area was made up of soft sand.
So, as nothing came of my attempt to damage myself, in order to avoid the annoyance of being the butt of jokes for the other campers, I searched for other solutions to my problem (learning to ride a bicycle, or asking someone to provide me with assistance in this affair didn't seem the right solution at the time).
Meanwhile, a heavily pouring rain blasted the area with sheets of cold precipitation and the bicycle trip got delayed by two days.
Thus I got sick from the exposure and the bug that was metabolizing and reproducing on the campers.
I had to be isolated with a number of other 'exposes' for the next week and therefore managed to avoid the bicycle trip.
Stupidity is born of fear, yet might seem bereft of it at times.
P.S.
I learned to ride a bicycle when I was 19 and had been an avid mountain cyclist since.