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Tim Ferriss TED Talk: Fear Setting

• Stoicism: Decrease emotional reactivity
• Focus exclusively on what you can control
• "We suffer more in imagination than in reality" - Seneca
• "Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life."

Fear-Setting

~Once a quarter. For anything you're anxious about:

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• Define what negative things could happen (10-20)
• What could you do to prevent or mitigate those?
• If unsuccessful, how hard is it to repair the damage they cause?

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What benefits might you get from a success, an attempt, or a "base hit"?

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What is the cost of inaction? What will it do to your life in 6 months, 1 year, 3 years if you don't do anything?