Oliver Burkeman, The Power of Negative Thinking
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How Meditation Can Help You Deal With Insecurity and Competition
Sally Kohn: I'm a stoic technique that you talked about. So much insecurity is so much competition, and any data point can come over the transom of like, oh, so and so is getting some assignment that I wanted. She says she finds dealing with it meditatively, which is seeing it for what it is more effective than trying to reassure herself everything will be fine. The Stoics came up with an approach where they just reckoning with how life would look if something went horribly wrong in their lives.
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