How to stop feeling overwhelmed @TheDiaryOfACEO

fascinating research on anxiety that

shows that if you're someone in life

whose life is happening to you, like you

wake up one day and then like your boss

wants you to come in for work, you have

to pay rent at the end of the month and

like you're logging on to Tinder and

people aren't responding to you. Life is

controlling the direction that you move.

People feel overwhelmed by this and they

want freedom. They want control. What

they end up doing is they they they wish

that they didn't have these things. So

they run away from these problems. So

passive challenges or challenges that

life imposes upon you that you didn't

sign up for. Then there's something

really fascinating which is your sense

of control in life does not correlate

just with the passive challenges. It

correlates with the ratio of passive

challenges to active challenges. Active

challenges are things that you choose to

do that are difficult. So this is really

fascinating. But if you're getting

bodied by life in three different

directions, the solution to that is not

run away from those problems. It's

actually to wake up and start to push

yourself in a particular direction. I

want to do this instead. If you want to

learn how to like read uh you know learn

philosophy, you know, start studying

philosophical texts is you start to take

on more which is very counterintuitive

because when most people feel feel

overwhelmed, they don't feel like they

can do more. The exact solution is to

take on more active challenges. Then you

have some sense of control in life. And

once your ratio of active challenges to

passive challenges is more evened out,

this does something really cool. It

gives you a sense that I'm no longer out

of control. Once you feel like you're no

longer out of control, this is the

really cool thing, then your capacity to

deal with the stuff that life throws at

you actually improves.