Sahil Bloom

What did I not do?

And how can we shine a light on that monster, if you will, to realize that

It actually wasn't quite as scary as we really thought.

Like you imagine yourself as a kid or maybe some of the people listening have children.

They're afraid of the monster under their bed or the monster in the closet.

And then you open the door and you turn on the light and you realize there's no monster there and now you're not afraid.

That is what fear does to most of us.

It thrives in the darkness.

And when you shine a light on it, when you deconstruct it, you end up realizing it wasn't so scary and you start taking action on these things.

Tim Ferriss was the first person I saw talk about this.

He had an exercise I think he called fear setting where you deconstruct a fear by saying, what were the downsides if I had taken action and what were the upsides if I had taken action?

And it gives you this balanced sort of objective perspective on the thing that was previously, you know, abstract and amorphous.

Yeah, I mean, I would say my biggest one was leading up to my book launch.

This is late 2024, very early 2025.

My real fear around it that I uncovered was I was afraid of giving 100% towards this thing and failing.

So one thing that often happens to us is like we don't give 100 percent because we're afraid of what would happen to our ego if we did give 100 percent and then failed.

Right.

It's like a self-protection mechanism.

You build in the excuse.

So you've probably done this at some point in your life, Greg, or anyone listening.