Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The hard choices -- what we most fear doing, asking, saying -- are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action? Tim Ferriss encourages us to fully envision and write down our fears in detail, in a simple but powerful exercise he calls "fear-setting." Learn more about how this practice can help you thrive in high-stress environments and separate what you can control from what you cannot.

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0:00.0	Hi, you're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. If you want to thrive in high-stress
0:09.3	environments and make better decisions, an ancient philosophy might be the answer. That's according to
0:15.5	today's archive talk from TED-2017, from tech investor and podcaster, Tim Ferriss.
0:24.3	If you like the talk, you might enjoy Tim's podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show.
0:29.6	Each episode, he interviews world-class performers from eclectic areas like investing, sports,
0:35.0	business, art, and more to tease out the life lessons, habits, and tools that listeners can use.
0:40.0	He's had more than 400 guests on, including Hugh Jackman, and many TED speakers, like Dr. Jane Goodall and Adam Grant.
0:42.0	You can find the Tim Ferriss Show on Tim.blog slash podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:50.0	1999, I was a senior in college, and it was right after a dance practice.
0:55.0	I was really, really happy.
0:58.0	And I remember exactly where I was, about a week and a half later,
1:02.0	I was sitting in the back of my used minivan in a campus parking lot
1:07.0	when I decided that I was going to commit suicide.
1:15.6	And I went from deciding to a full-blown planning very quickly. It's the closest I've ever come to the edge of the precipice.
1:19.6	And the only reason I took my finger off the trigger
1:22.6	was thanks to a few lucky coincidences.
1:25.6	And after the fact, that's what scared me the most,
1:28.7	the element of chance.
1:30.8	So I became very methodical
1:32.3	about testing different ways
1:34.2	that I could manage my ups and downs,
1:36.1	which has proven to be a good investment.
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