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the moment you stop rehearsing the speech and actually say the words.
means To face someone or something difficult head-on, especially to challenge or address it directly rather than avoid it.
from From Latin 'confrontare,' built from 'com-' (together) and 'frons, frontis' (forehead, brow, front) — literally to put foreheads together, to stand brow-to-brow. That same 'frons' gives us 'front' and 'frontier.' It reached English through Old French 'confronter,' and you can still feel the original posture in it: two faces brought level, nothing between them.
- latin roots
- from frons, meaning forehead — literally heads colliding
- body knows
- heart rate spikes before your brain commits
- avoidance tax
- unsaid things compound interest in your gut
- two outcomes
- resolution or clarity — both beat silence
for instance
kennedy cuban missile crisis — october 1962 when jfk publicly confronted soviet union over missiles in cuba, bringing world to brink of nuclear war