Filmed April 2017 at TED2017 Tim Ferriss: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_ferriss_why_you_should_define_your_fears_instead_of_your_goals 0:11 So, this happy pic of me was taken in 1999. I was a senior in college, and it was right after a dance practice. I was really, really happy. And I remember exactly where I was about a week and a half later. I was sitting in the back of my used minivan in a campus parking lot, when I decided I was going to commit suicide. I went from deciding to full-blown planning very quickly. And I came this close to the edge of the precipice. It's the closest I've ever come. And the only reason I took my finger off the trigger was thanks to a few lucky coincidences. And after the fact, that's what scared me the most: the element of chance. 0:56 So I became very methodical about testing different ways that I could manage my ups and downs, which has proven to be a good investment. (Laughs)