Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
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The hard choices - what we most fear doing, asking, saying - are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action? Tim Ferriss encourages us to fully envision and write down our fears in detail, in a simple but powerful exercise he calls "fear-setting."
Briefly describe Seneca the Younger’s exercise titled “premeditatio malorum.” Then explain how Tim Ferriss took this concept and turned it into his “fear-setting” exercise.
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