Huffington, Arianna
"On Becoming Fearless"

Fearlessness, says political pundit and writer Arianna Huffington, is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. "It's doing something while you are afraid," she told The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm. "As a result, building what I call a fearless muscle. It's like a workout. The more we do it, the easier it becomes, the more we change our lives, the more we change as human beings. It's really learned behavior. You know, nobody's born fearless. I mean, I was afraid of everything."

It's this kind of advice that Huffington, author of 11 books and founder of the liberal blog, "The Huffington Post" imparts in her new book "On Becoming Fearless."   To read an excerpt