Conquering Your Fear

FEAR SETTING

Conquering Fear = Defining Fear

The following exercise is designed to alleviate the anxiety you may be feeling as you are coming to the end of your student journey and begin your foray into the professional world.

Tim Ferriss: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals.

Use the fear setting form to define a fear, create a strategy to prevent it coming to fruition and a contingency to repair the problem if it occurs.

  • Define your fears leaving the course?

  • Define your fears in being a game designer?

  • Define the cause/reason of the fear?

  • Define the worst possible outcome for each fear as well as them all happening at once?

  • List a series of steps you can take to avoid these fears coming to fruition?

  • Define a contingency plan if something goes wrong?

Final word

Remember when you graduate you essentially have earned a white belt and are ready to begin your training to become a professional.

  • Mindfulness practice.

  • Invest own money and own time in learning before making money.

  • Take weakness flip into strength.

  • Failure is not durable.

  • There is no failure there is only outcomes.

Note: Remember you can learn these techniques to address anything you are considering doing.

 

Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything (00:16-10:00)