Tim Ferriss

And they're either reversible or completely survivable.

The last piece, and this is new in the last, I would say, 15 years for me, is...

on a separate piece of paper, you write down status quo.

If I can just consider, if I can just continue doing what I'm doing, what are the costs, financially, emotionally, relationally, in one year from now, in three years from now, in 10 years from now?

And you write that stuff down because we're very good at thinking about the risks of doing something, but we're not as trained to think about the risks of just continuing doing what we're doing.

And so when I looked at that, I was like, I don't think I can make it five years.

10 years, forget it.

My life's a complete, utter disaster.

It's like, okay, so now it's not a question of if, it's just a question of when.

Okay.

Now when I look at these two things, right, is doing this thing risky compared to status quo one, three, five years from now?

It's like, oh, this thing that I thought was scary is much lower risk.

And then you do it.

And like, that is what kicked off all these adventures that led to the first book.

And like, here we are.

If I had not taken that vacation, I would not be sitting here.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, here's what I would say, is that fear setting, much like doing goal setting doesn't achieve your goal.

It's almost daring yourself to do what you want to do.

It's daring yourself.