Fear-Setting
A one-page worksheet for the decision you keep avoiding out of fear — Seneca's premeditatio malorum by way of Tim Ferriss. Name the action, then work each worst case across three columns: Define it in full, Prevent it by lowering the odds, Repair it if it happens anyway. Weigh all of that against the quiet cost of doing nothing — in six months, a year, three years — then commit to the smallest step you'll take regardless. We suffer more in imagination than in reality; naming the worst on paper shrinks it to its real size. Leave any row blank to work out by hand.
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Best for: Talking yourself into a decision fear has you avoiding.
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