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You don't have to do this to yourself.

There is so much to worry about.

There is so much to be stressed about.

There is so much to consider so much you have to figure out.

Or so you think.

But do you actually? Like, do you have to be anchors and

alarmed and miserable and hopeless? Or is that a choice? We've touched on this in a few

daily stilic emails and episodes over the years. First, that often our worries that part of us

that catastrophizes is a bad use of our creativity.

As Marcus Aurelius reminds himself, we don't have to imagine everything that could or might happen

torturing ourselves with terrifying potential outcomes. Our anxiety medallion is actually a great

tool for this. That's why I carry it with me. And second, although the

Stoics did believe in the idea that we needed to look inward, they didn't say anything about

that interior life being tumultuous and turbulent. Too many of us, as we've said recently,

live in our heads and as a result live in a bad neighborhood. We can be present. We can be happy. We can be confident.

We can be positive. We can do this even though the world feels and indeed looks like it is falling

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