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Fear Setting

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A technique developed by Tim Ferriss for analyzing and overcoming fears through systematic examination.

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"I did a TED talk on this called fear setting. You start to do fear setting around these fears. You defang them."
From: How to Quiet the Ruminative Mind and Avoid The Traps of Self-Help — Tim Ferriss • ▶ 1:08:23 • Feb 2026

Attribution: Tim mentions creating the fear setting technique and giving a TED talk about it