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Exercise15 minExistentialRationality

Your challenge zone

Choose a manageable challenge, break it into smaller steps and take the first one.

The path

How it works

  1. From the bookWrite
  2. What are you avoiding?List
  3. Choose a manageable challengeWriteRate
  4. Break down the boulderList
  5. Take the first stepWrite
Everything good in life starts with a challenge. That may sound like a cliché. Think about your proudest moments. Almost without exception, they began with something that felt hard, maybe even frightening — daring to spe …

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The evidence

Why does it work?

People with a moderate amount of difficult life events behind them were on average better off over time than those with none or many (Seery et al., 2010), but this is an association, not a call to seek out hardship. Stepwise challenges follow the principle of exposure (Craske et al., 2014); the design of this exercise has not been tested.

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