# Why you should define your fears instead of your goals

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2017
- Speaker: Tim Ferriss
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_ferriss_why_you_should_define_your_fears_instead_of_your_goals)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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 envision and write down our fears in detail, in a simple but powerful exercise he calls "fear-setting." Learn more about how this practice can help you thrive in high-stress environments and separate what you can control from what you cannot.

## Lectures

1. [Why you should define your fears instead of your goals](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/tim_ferriss_why_you_should_define_your_fears_instead_of_your_goals/36907789c71f), 14 min (TED's player)