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Ep94 - Tim Ferriss | How to Cage the Monkey Mind

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How to Train Yourself to Not Be Embarrassed by the Small Things

There are many different ways to do this, but I think that would be one that comes to mind is regularly practicing things that you feel embarrassed by. So when it comes time to make big decisions stand up for something larger, you will have the training that you need. For a while recently, I was wearing what I could best describe as like the creepy porn stash. It was a very ill-advised, half-grown mustache that looked terrible. And I wore that around for like a good week and a half. The second would be practicing your worst case scenario. This is sort of a larger meta example. Seneca, I think it's on fasting and festivals or on festivals and

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