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Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the Anxiety of Unfulfilled Dreams

The Anxious Achiever

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Is There Anxiety in Our Brains?

A lot of, a lot of times when i'm writing, it's i'm trying to calm my mind down. Ors, im our brains are built to do that, right? Our ancestors, our biological ancestors, running around in the wild, had to constantly be on the lookout for what was going to kill them. And so we find other problems to focus on, and and then we write them down and tell stories about them. Ause, ause, i think, i think a lot of people who are sort of anxious over thinkers in life might have this sense of what if a. The reporter said, from gratitude, your gratitude, sprang a sort of existential anxiety,

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