Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss
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...
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So, this happy pic of me was taken in 1999.I was a senior in college,and it was right after a dance practice.I was really, really happy.And I remember exactly where I was about a week and a half later.I was sitting in the back of my used minivanin a campus parking lot,when I decidedI was going to commit suicide.I went from deciding to full-blown planning very quickly.And I came this close to the edge of the precipice.It's the closest I've ever come.And the only reason I took my finger off the triggerwas thanks to a few lucky coincidences.And after the fact,that's what scared me the most: the element of chance.So I became very methodical about testing different waysthat I could manage my ups and downs,which has proven to be a good investment. (...
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So, this happy pic of me was taken in 1999.I was a senior in college,and it was right after a dance practice.I was really, really happy.And I remember exactly where I was about a week and a half later.I was sitting in the back of my used minivanin a campus parking lot,when I decidedI was going to commit suicide.I went from deciding to full-blown planning very quickly.And I came this close to the edge of the precipice.It's the closest I've ever come.And the only reason I took my finger off the triggerwas thanks to a few lucky coincidences.And after the fact,that's what scared me the most: the element of chance.So I became very methodical about testing different waysthat I could manage my ups and downs,which has proven to be a good investment. (...
