The basic Aphor list and a sublist Aphor Charles Scamahorn 

1. Forethought is helpful, but excess forethought reaches into an infinity of possible problems and generates fear disproportionate to the issues.
2. The ideal amount of fear is that which goads you to give your best effort.
3. Thinking about the goal will guide you along the way and distract you from idle fears.
4. When you prepare with alternate routes to the goals, the ensuing unknowns will hurt your competition and benefit your flexibility.
5. Become comfortable working outside your experience by often doing things beside masters that require learning their skills.
6. When you become comfortable with your eventual death, you won’t fear the transient opinion of others.
7. A promise to do something sets yourself to live with a free-floating fear that you might fail.
8. A fear lurking in your unconscious promotes rigid behavior, and makes you prone to fight, flight, or freeze responses instead of coping flexibly.
9. Being locked into fear before an encounter precipitates failure.
10. We don’t learn much from having survived fear-ridden experiences because we suppress our failure with each retelling of the encounter.
11. There is always a trace of fear in the back of our minds, but we will not function with appropriate adaptations when our guts go squeamish.
12. With ample exposure to dangerous situations, we can intentionally desensitize our fears and behave in adaptive ways.
13. We can train to cope with particular fears by practicing in similar less deadly situations and learn to control our anxiety and function.
14. You can learn to turn your fear reflex off with exposure and practice.
15. Being dead is only returning your consciousness of self to where it came from, but the process of dying can be annoying.
16. There is no sense in being afraid of the universal stuff that forms us.
17. When you fall into a fearful mindset, everything becomes horrifying.
18. A person prone to fear seeks security, and there are many people and organizations prepared to sell him security.