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Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything | Video on TED.com Main takes from it, emphasis mine… And proceeded to look at — I wanted to set competition so I’d have a deadline — Parkinson’s Law, the perceived complexity of a task will expand to fill the time you allot it. So I had a very short deadline for a competition! This brings us to the point, which is, it’s oftentimes what you do, not how you do it, that is the determining factor....

Tony Robbins asks why we do what we do (at TED.com ) (funny improv interaction with Al Gore starting at 5:15) Bottom line: What are you going to focus on? Right now, you have to decide what you’re going to focus on. In this second, consciously or unconsciously. The minute you decide to focus on something you’ve got to give it a meaning, and whatever that meaning is produces emotion. Is this the end or the beginning?...