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Anxiety Is A Universal Human Condition
- Anxiety is a pervasive, often-existential suffering tied to feeling unprepared for life.
- Recognizing anxiety's ubiquity helps reframe it as a human condition rather than a personal flaw.
Recurring Exam Dream Illustrates Unpreparedness
- Tara Brach shares a recurring dream of being unprepared for high school exams and lost in a building.
- The dream illustrates a deep, widespread feeling of not being ready for life's surprises.
Life's Shaping Events Are Unpredictable
- Major life-shaping events are usually those we couldn't prepare for rather than planned achievements.
- Trying to build defenses against all uncertainty leaves us exposed when life comes from unexpected directions.