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# Fear loses authority when repeated practice...
> Fear loses authority when repeated practice produces a larger record than avoidance. Habit then carries courage forward: one tolerable action becomes a pattern, the pattern becomes capability, and capability gives a person more freedom to meet the next transformation without surrendering authorship of the self.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Fear, Habit, and Building Change Through Repeated Practice - Workbook|Fear, Habit, and Building Change Through Repeated Practice]]
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“Fear loses authority when repeated practice produces a larger record than avoidance. Habit then carries courage forward: one tolerable action becomes a pattern, the pattern becomes capability, and capability gives a person more freedom to meet the next transformation without surrendering authorship of the self.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-fear-loses-authority-surrendering-authorship-self
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