Sometimes our lizard brains build moun­tains where only roads exist — mainly so we have an excuse not to ven­ture down them. One side of our brain is nat­u­rally built to warn of dan­ger and the other is all too apt to believe it. It is in this ten­sion that even fic­tion can become fric­tion that slows us down and keeps us from tack­ling the task at hand. Overcoming the chal­lenges of our lives often comes from star­ing this fric­tion in its face and see­ing it for what it really is — the fear of what we are fully capa­ble of…