Adam Gopnik - The Mystery of Skill and Mastery
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How to Deal With Anxiety Disorders
I suspect I suffer from a phobia anxiety disorder it's sometimes called which is called pariaresis or shy bladder syndrome. No one knows why you get it and doesn't seem to be tied to a particular trauma. Phobias are a kind of black mass version of mastery we construct very skillfully most of the time a kind of prison of our own making in which we live. We all entrap ourselves in our own mastery in an odd way.
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