Brian Johnson explains how phone call dread spirals through procrastination: you prepare excessively, get coffee, rehearse worst-case scenarios, and the delay makes the fear bigger. His fix is immediate action. Pick up the phone instead of distracting yourself. Starve the fear by removing the delay.
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You need to make a phone call to someone and just the thought of making the phone call creates a level of anxiety within you, apprehension. And then rather than pick up the phone and dial the numbers and call them, you go get a cup of coffee and you think about it and you're like, okay, let me prepare. Let me see what I need to do here to make sure that call goes well. But you're really just imagining all the things that can go wrong and avoiding what needs to get done and in the process you're feeding your fear. You're making it bigger and bigger and bigger. Brian Johnson tells us we need to starve fear. Cut the time out of the equation. You're just avoiding doing what needs to get done. What if you could reverse that whole process, and rather than go out and distract yourself and waste a ton of time and create anxiety in your life unnecessarily, you just did it.