Worry takes a cognitive toll that reduces our ability to work on the task at hand
Summary
- Worry takes a cognitive toll that reduces our ability to work on the task at hand
Details
- Worry doesnt actually help us, it just makes us insecure and obsess about things which are not even likely to happen
- It would serve us much better to use the mental energy to actually accomplish the task at hand
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Quotes
It doesn’t matter who you are, you’ve probably got something to be worried about. And is the worry helping us? No. It distracts and obsesses us. It takes us down rabbit holes of doubt and insecurity, through fantasies of extrapolation and doomsday predictions. All cognitive costs taking us away from the actual task at hand.
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