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#33 — Ask Me Anything 4

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How to Deal With Anxiety in a Plane Crash

The likelihood of dying in a plane crash is minescule for the course of your journey. You should begin to worry as you leave the airport and get in an ober or a taxi, that's when your risk of mortality begins to pique. When you're driving and glancing down at your phone to see what text just came in, those are the moments where thesweat should begin beating up on your forehead. If you'll step out of your thoughts and just become willing to feel the raw sensation of anxiety, actually just surrender your resistance to it, just feel it as energy, it can lose its meaning. It can become very difficult to distinguish from what, under another framing

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