Sentences with phrase «fear of bad outcomes»

Gourevitch has a point about the «politics of fear,» but historically speaking, when has a major national initiative not been motivated, at least in part, by fear of a bad outcome?

(Or, perhaps I should say, fear of a worse outcome?)

Not exact matches

Most of the time, the potential outcome isn't nearly as bad as our fear leads us to believe.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk referenced the action movies as a way of illustrating his fears about the worst possible outcomes of development of AI technology.

Webb says she has plenty of entrepreneurial friends who fear a similar, or worse, outcome.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Teach children that they will get in trouble if they hurt others, and they will behave better because they fear the bad outcomes of misbehavior.

Or, the shittiest of all, they imply directly or indirectly that bad outcomes are the result of mothers» fear, anxiety, or otherwise deficient instincts.

I'm not so sure fear of litigation regarding birth outcomes really is a bad thing.

Being scared of a lawsuit is secondary, if you avoid «what might happen» by using interventions when they seem called for, you have no reason to fear a lawsuit — no one can sue if they don't have a bad outcome to sue for.

RANDOM STAT: Another hung parliament is voters» worst fear - just 28 % of those polled would like to see such an outcome on June 9.

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If you are afraid to take the risk, don't let the fear hold you back, but just prepare and accept the best of the outcomes, rather than the worst.

But the truth is simple: not investing is probably the worst outcome of all, and you need to overcome your fear of investing in the stock market.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

The language in the letters that likely leads many people to pay is the promise of not seeking more money if the letter's stated dollar amount is paid in settlement, coupled with the recipient's fear of risking a worse outcome by not paying.

Whenever I have a fear about something, I think through it, all of the worse possible outcomes, then I think of my why.