TED talks

“ You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?” ― Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges What if I get sick? What if I mess up my presentation? What if I had done something else, would it have been better? People are plagued with “What if?” s all the time. They worry about commonplace issues like health, finance, up to the most bizarre like drowning, falling pianos. I remember an acquaintance (whose name shall not revealed) who always carried a deluge of pills, antidotes, and medicine to combat the various dangers he saw in everyday life. Humans are sentient, intelligent beings. As such, we sometimes are unreasonably concerned with what would happen. “What if”s that we think about usually have negative consequences than positives. Think about when we were children. Did we worry about getting scraped up swinging from the monkey bars, or about the dangers of trying new, stupid things? Far less than now, to be sure. As we grow older, humans become conser