André Duqum

The slight battery drains that seemed consistent over time, activities and people.

And in addition to that, and I joked with a friend of mine at one point, I said, you know what I should create as a journal?

Because people love journals.

Everybody's putting out a journal.

I was like, let me just add to the noise.

But my journal will be

Something like worries that mostly didn't come true, where you just look back at the things that you were worried about.

And so I do this when I look back at the calendar and just what a tiny fraction of the whole, the smallest percentage that actually become a problem.

And that gives you, I would say, two insights for me.

And I need to constantly remind myself of this because I'm hypervigilant and actually tend to see the world as like full of danger, strangers you can't trust, et cetera.

That's my baseline.

But one is a lot of the things you're really, really terrified about, worried about just don't happen, right?

So in that case, the cards fall in your favor.

But...

real life has bumps along the way.

So when the cards don't fall in your favor, you figure it out.

And when you look backwards, you can see like, if you're actually sitting here, you have a decent life.

You have figured out thousands upon thousands and maybe millions upon millions of little micro decisions and adaptations along the way.

So it's also doing a retrospective to convince myself, and this takes reconvincing, that you can figure it out.

So I would say trusting in the ability, your own ability to figure most things out.