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19: How Our Mortality Drives Our Lives: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

Made You Think

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Are You So Scared of Flying?

We all just sort of invent these anxieties and these reasons to worry. And they seem really important and serious to us, but to outsiders, they usually seem like kind of trivial. I wonder if too, like books like this make me much more introspective. It made me actually think of what this, especially this quote, the inventing reasons for anxiety thing.

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