BONUS | If You’re Feeling Anxious Right Now, Listen To This
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Feeling anxious lately? In this bonus episode, Ryan and author Chris Guillebeau break down what your anxiety is really trying to tell you, why fighting it makes it worse, and how to finally feel calm without forcing it.
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| 0:58.6 | Would you describe yourself as an anxious person? |
| 0:59.0 | Sure. |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah? |
| 0:59.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.5 | What does it look like for you? |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.1 | I think for me it's this constant sense of questioning. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.3 | And I've tried to transition the questioning, at least in terms of questioning myself and questioning every decision, into paying attention and noticing. |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah. So that's a little bit different. |
| 1:22.5 | And something I think is really helpful for people is if you just kind of like go through your day |
| 1:27.5 | and just start by paying attention to how you spend your time. You don't have to do anything else. |
| 1:33.7 | Like if you just notice, you know, what are you responding to when you have little pockets of free time? |
| 1:39.5 | How do you spend that time? How do you structure your day with whatever autonomy you have? |
| 1:44.1 | I think if you do nothing |
| 1:45.1 | else, then just moving forward, you're going to probably make some better decisions. And the second |
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