Solution # 3 –  Build Optimism At the base level fear is nothing but negative thinking. Our minds would have accumulated lots and lots of negative thoughts through out the years. For many people the default mode of thinking would have been ‘negative’. What this means is that you naturally think negatively about any situation or event. Your brain’s neural pathways are wired to think negatively. Your brain might have the predisposed mode of negative thinking or through the accumulation