Fear-Setting: The Most Important Exercise I Still Do Today | Tim Ferriss

I do an exercise called “fear-setting” at least once a quarter, often once a month. It is the most powerful exercise I do.

Fear-setting has produced my biggest business and personal successes, as well as repeatedly helped me to avoid catastrophic mistakes.


About Tim Ferriss:
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 200 million downloads and been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running.

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[KickInTheButtVideos]

Writing down the costs of inaction is genius! It forces your mind to look at things from a different perspective. This is a great thing to do if you are stuck or don't know how to solve a challenge.

[ceilihmcgrady]

I saw your Ted talk a while back and did the fear setting exercise to help me make the decision to change careers. 👍

[jonathantorres]

Great advice. Instead of what you think might go wrong it really is good to actually think about what you will miss out on if you don’t take action 🤔

[SefriouiAmineballout]

Love these videos you have been shooting lately Tim. I cannot tell you how much your podcasts changed my perspective on life and many other subjects, you are on the list of people i need to meet up and have a chat with.

[aamirafzal]

awesome....will do this for sure..I'm really stuck into similar kind of situation

[Ririke]

Possibly my favourite part of the 4HWW

[JamieDarren]

thanks tim. I plan on taking this to heart.

[ck-jtly]

Telescoping out? Making a list? Stay inaction what would happen? Potential cost of inaction? Yo, caught my attention. So, must take, or harder yet, face the fear in my face to stop inaction or procrastination?! Yes, I'll bunch back, take the uncomfortable actions, otherwise, consequence due me from all my self-center fears is nothing but more debt later...This Fear Setting advice here is definitely helpful. Thank you for the excellent pieces of advice and making this short video.

[alexanderSnilsson]

Just did a video of my own on this topic - influenced by Tim's Ted talk on this Topic. Mine is more honed in on daily fear facing routines to make it easier to face those bigger fears!

[gymfreak]

That really helped me today. Thank you so much for sharing

[adriennemiller.music.]

Hey guys! I created a facebook group called Fear Setting to people who wanna join a community of people who are interested in doing this exercise!

[EdenCroft]

What an interesting idea. Thanks for sharing this concept. I will definitely share it with my own circle.

[fillofchocolate]

Write down our fear our cost?I thought you will give us a solution to get rid of fear what benefit I get from writing down my fear🤨

[MindNow]

*wow, tim! That is definitely very useful!*

Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!

Winny out... _for now_ 😉

[ashleystardust]

You'd be a great insurance underwriter lol. Risk assessment :)

[achauhan]

I bet these videos were batch processed all together

[luklear]

Dear Timmo, what shirt is that? That’s a good ass shirt.

[felixdragoi]

Basically Tony Robbins old Dickens Pattern.

[sunsfan]

Great to hear! This 3:16 saved my marriage otherwise it was on to wife #3

[xev]

fear setting is same as anthony robbins dickens pattern