Showing posts with label philosophy of stoicism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy of stoicism. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 September 2017

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss



I love this - Tim Ferriss talks us through the Philosophy of Stoicism, and the key points I took from this are:

- perform Fear Analysis, in the same way you would Goal Analysis
- anything that is making us worry about taking a forward action, should be analysed to find out why.  - sure, your fear might be well founded and completely valid, but just work through it and then you'll know for certain.
- otherwise you'll be able to find work-arounds in case the 'what if' scenario actually happens
- this is similar to the risk analysis that I used to perform in my previous life as a project manager - understanding what can go wrong, and mitigating that is the best way to get comfortable with your decisions