Fear? or NO Fear?

I read this somewhere and somehow it reminds me of a Synchro training camp in 1995 in Calgary, Canada.

The other side of fear

Most of your fears would disappear if you would simply decide to walk right up to them.
Fear has only the power that you give it.
Your fears can intimidate you or they can illuminate you.
The choice is entirely up to you.
Your fears can stop you or they can prepare you. And you get to decide which it will be.
Listen to each fear just long enough to absorb the useful and reasonable information it may contain. Then realize that once that is done, it is time to move on beyond the fear.
On the other side of fear, there is value, there is accomplishment, there is fulfillment.
See fear as the gateway that it is, and make the choice to carefully and persistently go through it.
Allow the fear to prepare you well, then move on past it. And be amazed at the great things you can do.

Why does it remind me of the training camp? Well, first of all our theme and yell during the training camp was: Absolutely, Positively, Most Definitely, without a doubt: NO FEAR!
It was a six week training camp to prepare for FINA World Cup and the qualifying meet for Atlanta Olympics 1996 (which we unfortunately missed). The training camp was all about going beyond your limits, push ourselves further and to not be afraid. Not only in Synchro, but with everything. One thing for example was the 10m diving platform. We were all very scared to jump of the platform.... but we all did it. We did the most extreme things. Things I can remember are, swimming our free routine 11 times in a row. Which is crazy as you're dead tired after swimming it once. The only rest we had in between, was the swim back to the deck and then the music started again. We had to swim under water as far as possible. We had girls on the team swimming 100m (not me, I saw little stars already before 75m), who could hardly remember what they just did (they were almost out). Swimming 4 x 400m, trying to improve your time after every 400m. Only a short rest in between. We have been doing land drill for hours, Push ups, sit ups, flexibility.... deng .... sometimes I think I was crazy ..... but then again.... It was awesome to have been thru all of this. Learned so much from doing this all. And we also did lots of fun things during the weekends. Even though we trained 8 hours a day, we had the weekends of to have fun!!
But from having NO Fear (or at least trying to have no fear) at that time, it made me a stronger person and it made proud of the things I accomplished so far. And when I look back at all of this, I remember it all with a SMILE on my face. It was great!