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How I Overcame Anxiety Using Stoicism: Interview with Jon Brooks

The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

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Is Your Anxiety Helping You Survive?

Anxiety is there to make us survive. It's this what if scenaria that's playing over in your head. If we didn't have them, it's unlikely that we would have gotten as far as a species. There are times when they lead us down the wrong path. But they are trying to serve an important function. And so our challenge is to take this, this anxiety that is trying to help us am in ways that are sub optimal,. and to try and work with it and kind of retrain it yor so.

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