Tim Ferriss

Here's what it is.

It's daring yourself.

What it's also saying is some of your fears will be well-founded, right?

There's certain things that could be catastrophic.

but it's like one percent like do not let your fears put an emergency brake on your life without cross-examining them that's all it says is like most of your fears are these phantasms in the fog that are scary because it's like the boogeyman the lights are out

you haven't looked at it clearly.

As soon as you write it down, you realize, flip the light switches on, Boogeyman's not there.

And then you can take action.

But sure, there's certain things that are gonna be scary no matter what, right?

Losing a relative to Alzheimer's, right?

Someone you love.

Or suffering some horrible injury, right?

These are all things that have real consequences.

But your ability to survive and thrive, like your resilience is a lot greater than I think

you realize in most cases.

And you have a track record.

Like anyone who's made it this far, who's watching this right now, like you've survived a lot and you've figured out a lot, even when plans went sideways.

So the fear setting fundamentally is a tool that you can do in like an hour.

It doesn't even take an hour.

That takes the emergency brake off.