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Ep. 17: The Power of Negative Visualization (<10 Minutes)

The Tim Ferriss Show

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What Is Negative Visualization?

The first is called negative visualization, and it's all related to the basic assumption that defining your fears instead of your goals, is a key to doing anything uncommon. Negative visualization is what i would call preparation in practical pessimism. So as an anecdote, in two thousand four i was working 14 hours a day in my own company, trapped in a beast of our own design. I didn't do that for six months because i was running an endless loop of what if cenarias. What if we lost the biggest customer we have and therefore had proms abiency problemy is those fears weren't actionable, just like poorly defined goals are inactionable.

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