NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Train the Fearless Mind. He was known to fans as “Fearless Felix” for his daredevil jumps off the tallest buildings in the world, but Felix Baumgartner lost his Right Stuff while sitting safely on the ground. As he was training for a supersonic jump from a balloon in the stratosphere, he developed a crippling fear of putting on his spacesuit and helmet. The NASA veterans training him figured he’d never overcome it, but he did, as detailed in this excerpt in Medium from The Power of Bad.