Gary Brecka

Yeah.

I love that.

You know, and I think, you know, this expectation leads to a lot of apprehension.

You know, you've called anxiety a crisis of hope.

Mm-hmm.

You know, I sat with that definition for a little while because, you know,

It makes a lot of sense to me that, you know, hope is your at least belief that something's going to turn out a certain way.

And when it doesn't, or that you hope a certain person isn't at a dinner party when you arrive, or you hope that you get to have them earlier, you hope that the food is good at a restaurant.

And...

Again, I wonder if you would like give us some context around that, too, because when I do stage talks and podcasts and lectures and I'll just generally ask the audience, you know, how many of you suffer from anxiety?

Right.

70% of the audience will raise their hand.

Like, wow, there can't be a condition, you know, a pathology that exists at that scale.

Yeah.

Right.

So it must be something endemic in society that's causing people to feel.

Yeah.

Anxiety and.

It's like this thing is happening now.

Yeah, I'm standing on the edge of a 30th floor balcony and I'm afraid heights.