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Billy Sticker says worry comes from asking "what if" about bad things. The same mental habit can flip to positive outcomes: ask "what if you win?" instead. Imagining favorable results can break the anxiety cycle.

Billy Sticker says worry comes from asking "what if" about bad things. The same mental habit can flip to positive outcomes: ask "what if you win?" instead. Imagining favorable results can break the anxiety cycle.
If you think about the psychology of worry, you're just thinking, what if this bad thing happens?
Yep.
That's what causes worry.
Yeah.
And that's it.
Yeah.
But what if it doesn't? What if you did win? That's right. What if that— like, it's just as much energy, right, to think that.