
The Anxiety Files, Vol. 1: Courage and Avoidance
Bewildered
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How to Stay Safe in the World
What makes you safe in the world is your ability to tolerate discomfort until you can learn what actually is dangerous. That's how you are safe. And if you just stay in your tiny room, your tiny house for the rest of your life, if you're by on or whatever, nature's still going to come get you and you'll die. So yeah, there's a level of risk that is necessary to exercise courage is not foolishness. But the way you stay safe is to be willing to explore until you get a keener and keener sense of what's real danger and what is actually just unfamiliarity.
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