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There is something you need to understand about fear, and it is this. The thing you are afraid of is rarely the actual thing. The thing you are afraid of is a story you built around the thing. And the story is always worse than the reality. It is always more catastrophic. It always has more consequences. It always leaves less room for recovery. Because your mind, when it is trying to protect you, does not tell you what is likely. It tells you what is possible. And possible is a very wide net. Possible includes everything from the thing that could never happen to the thing that is already happening. And you treat them all the same. You give the unlikely catastrophe the same energy you give the likely one. You give the imagined disaster the same weight as the real one.