Often in interviews, people are asked: "What would you tell your younger self?"
The answer is always the same: Chill out. It’s going to be okay.
99% of what we worried about never happened. The 1% that did? We survived. We worked it out.
It turns out "figuring it out" is life's default setting.
Yet, today we still ruminate.
We let our minds run because it feels useful, but without brakes, a simple review turns into a catastrophe.
No one taught us how to stop.
Two things to fix that:
1. Training your mind is essential.
Learn how to stop your mind.
The ancients knew the power of meditation, as does modern science.
A practice will save you so much emotional agony, exhaustion and wasted life lost to overthinking.
Get into it.
(Need help? I know a guy!)
2. Apply the advice now.
If you’d tell your younger self to relax, why not tell your current self?
The Stoics nailed this centuries ago:
Focus on what you can control right now; keep a loose eye on the rest.
If you overthink and worry about every bump and possible bump in the road, exhaustion and misery is the only result.
Put this into practice and let me know how you get on.
Go well,
Arjuna
PS.
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