Sunny Strasburg and Fleet Maull discuss anxiety as a signal worth listening to rather than silencing. When anxiety points to real problems in your life, it's telling you something needs to change. They note that widespread uncertainty now makes anxiety common, not a personal failing.
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I think we really need to listen to when we have this anxiety, to listen to that and pay attention. Because maybe it's not about making that go away. Maybe it's telling us we need to make some changes in the world outside of ourselves to help us live in more conducive to how humans are meant to live.
Hey, probably even the least sensitive, and I don't mean to say that in a pejorative word, but maybe some of us are very resilient or maybe some of us are pretty armored up or we have thick skin, whatever, but we don't think of ourselves. Certainly not hypersensitive or even that sense of humor. But everybody, I'm sure, is experiencing a lot of uncertainty right now, just uncertainty about all the levers that are being pulled and what's happening with the economy. It's promises of it's going to get better, but it's getting worse. I mean, you would almost have to be on some kind of relaxant or some kind of suppressive drug to not be experiencing some level of anxiety uncertainty today.