[analyst74]

On a second thought, however, this line of thinking overlooked a major problem in real life -- that most of the fear comes from unknown.

By acknowledging that you do not know enough about a problem, the natural next step is to do more research, which causes you to, well, research more and do less.

On the other hand, a lot of successful entrepreneurs just embrace their ignorance and go for it, they end up failing or succeeding much more quickly.