"Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much……" — Oliver Burkeman
"Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm."
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11 Quotes by Oliver Burkeman
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...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and…
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Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem,…
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True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid…
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant…
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Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best,…
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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you…
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number…
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Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are…
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,
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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people…
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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