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How to Deal With the Worry of Waiting

The Art of Manliness

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The Benefits of Worrying While Waiting

People who reported being more religious and having a more committed religious faith and religious practice actually are more worried on average in our studies. It's not a big difference, but it's a very consistent difference across lots of different kinds of waiting periods compared to those who say that they're less religious. Worry is actually really helpful to us. We would probably die much quicker if we didn't have worry. And what worry tends to do is it draws your attention towards some potential looming threat in your future. But nonetheless, it's good if you need to take some action to prevent a bad outcome. And it motivates you to then do that.

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