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This week on TED.com June 17, 2017

Tim Ferriss: Define your fears instead of your goals 13:21 minutes · Filmed Apr 2017 · Posted Jun 2017 · TED2017 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 shares a simple but powerful exercise he calls "fear-setting." Learn more about how this practice can help you thrive -- and to separate what you can control from what you cannot. Watch now »

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Quote of the Week " I encourage you to ask yourselves: Where in your lives right now might defining your fears be more important than defining your goals? Keeping in mind all the while, the words of Seneca: 'We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.'" Tim Ferriss Why you should define your fears instead of your goals

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