Maxim #64: "Avoid worry."

From The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian, a 17th-century thinker. Follow this thread to see all 300 maxims. 🧵

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Between car troubles and filing late self-employment taxes, "avoid worry" is really the reminder I needed today. It's better to just accept things as they come, for worrying is pretending something exists that doesn't exist. When I was driving solo across Canada on a 3 month road trip to conquer my fear of strangers, I repeated a mantra over and over again and it really worked to calm my paranoia: "The world is full of good people and worry is the soul-destroyer." I've heard other people say that worry is like letting someone live in your head and they don't have to pray rent. Makes sense I guess. Jordan Peterson also says that if you do your work today you don't have to worry tomorrow, or something along those lines. Either way, I still need way more practice at this!