Learning Points: Facing our fears is the best way to conquer anxieties

FEAR is one of the most significant and important survival mechanisms we have as mammals, says Richard Hogan.

It is the feeling induced by a perceived danger or threat, it can even change how the brain and organs function. It ignites a primordial response, without which, over millennia, we would not have known what to run away from — which would have certainly meant an early demise for so many of us.