Tim Ferriss

Then column two is, what could I do to decrease the likelihood of this happening?

Like, anything I could do to try to prevent this.

All right, great.

So for the letter, at the time, this is back in the day, keep in mind, early 2000s, but there still were services where you could have mail shipped, they would scan it, and they would email you PDFs.

It's like, okay, well, let me test out one of those services.

I could do that.

Okay.

What about supply chain?

All right, with supply chain issues, there were a few...

were a few components that i could basically stockpile in advance in case things were disrupted and that would reduce like 80 of the risk okay then i could do that all right you go down the list and there's probably something you can do to decrease the risk of that happening all right so now you have two columns all the worst things that could happen the things you could do to decrease the likelihood of them happening all right next column next column is if it happens if that thing happens what could you do

for damage control?

What can you do to possibly get back up on your feet, right?

It's like if you start a company and it fails, could you get a bartending job?

Yeah, so then it's like, what can you do to repair the situation?

Just to get back to like life support, right?

If needed, what can you do?

There's always something you could do.

So you write that down.

Okay, then you have to ask yourself two follow-up questions.

All right, so if I did this thing I'm considering, four weeks of vacation,