Even though I acknowledge that “end of year” is just an arbitrary date, I take January as a good time to look back and ponder over what activities/relationships/methods had the best return on investment and I should invest even more this year, and what are those that I should cut back. January seems to have … Continue reading
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Fear-setting experiment: We are afraid of taking action, but what we should really fear is staying in the same place
I’ve done a lot of weird stuff over last few weeks as part of my Titan Experiment journey. I was hashtagging my emotions to learn how to manage them. I learned how to be happier in 10 seconds. I experienced what it would feel like if I would suddenly earn fraction of what I earn … Continue reading
Fear-Setting exercise (Week 10 experiment)
Easy choices – hard life. Hard choices – easy life. (Jerzy Gregorek) My experiment for this week is based on Tim’s new TED talk, released just a few days ago. It is very personal (suicide is as personal topic as it gets), but at the same time very actionable. He talks about why we should … Continue reading
Week 9 – What does it mean to be poor?
So I decided to be poor for a week. This experiment was guided by a quote from Tools of Titans: “Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer”. I was testing whether microdosing of our fears will make them less scary. It is a very simple experiment, but I learned a lot more … Continue reading
Tim’s new TED talk about overcoming fear with a bit of Stoic help
What a nice coincidence (or “synchronicity” as Robert A. Wilson would say) – just as I’m doing my Stoic week experiment with microdosing of one of my fears, TED published Tim’s talk about fear setting! It’s a great talk and as usual it has very actionable recommendations. Make sure you watch Tim’s TED talk, download … Continue reading
Week 9 – Is this what I feared so much? (a.k.a. My Stoic week)
We have so many worries. We are programmed to worry by our evolutionary history – we had to worry about predators, worry about food scarcity, worry about survival of our offspring. Many of are lucky enough and this type threats is not very real anymore. But our worry-circuits need something to do. And if our … Continue reading