Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

What if anxiety isn’t something to eliminate, but something we can learn to work with differently?

25 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Fleet Maull explores whether anxiety is inherently good or bad, or whether it depends on how we work with it. The key difference: anxiety that points to a concrete, actionable problem, like studying for a test, becomes useful and motivates you to solve it. Anxiety without a specific problem to fix is the kind worth learning to release.

The guiding principle with emotions is that you have to fully feel them in order to deal with them and release them.
So is it actually that there are useful, not useful, good and bad types of anxiety, or is it just more how we work with it?
It's more about whether or not when the anxiety comes up, if it's something where we can actually see that there's something we can do to fix the issue. So if it's a specific thing, like whether it's getting an A on a test or whether it's resolving a problem where we can research or these days go to ChatGPT or whatever it is. That's useful because it pushes you to, you know, to perform, to find solutions, and that type of thing.