What do you do if you're afraid and, to some degree, anxious? You lay out what you're anxious about in detail. Ask yourself, "What it is that I'm afraid of that might happen?".pic.twitter.com/DGIo2krKZ2
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Then, you deconstruct it into smaller increments - into hypothetically manageable problems - and then you expose yourself, gradually, to the thing that you're afraid of.
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The effect of this is not that you become less afraid. What happens instead? You become braver. And that's not the same thing.
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To decide to move forward courageously into the land of the unknown. That's one of the secrets to a good life, I would say.
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I'm afraid of Marxism taking over the civilized world. How do I deconstruct this awful and failed movement into smaller pieces?
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You gotta be careful tho, not to make the mistake of overthinking the problem. When I am anxious about something, I often find myself going over all the possible scenarios, even when the good strategy would be to just wait a bit and see if you got to know more details.
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As usual making sense by keeping it simple and easy to understand
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