Jemma Spake
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
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What Marcus Aurelius would say would be take that situation.
Imagine it all going terribly wrong.
Now imagine five different ways that you could cope.
The skills that you could regain.
The soft skills that you could
I don't know, fine-tune, the new career path that you could pivot into, the skill that you have that this technology doesn't, the way that you could go back to school, the way that you could start your own business.
That is the part of this equation that we never spend time on and that our mind never spends time on.
That's just one example, obviously.
But again, re-center your agency rather than letting the fear be the only dominant feeling.
Let's finish up this episode by turning our attention back to our larger anxieties about the world, the high level fear that everything is going to shit, everything is terrible, everything is a disaster, which honestly feels accurate sometimes.
But how do we navigate those anxieties?
Especially because, yes, we've talked about recentering agency, but our agency is probably more limited in these cases.
So some of those personal strategies are not going to be as effective.
I have a couple of alternatives.
I have three things for you to try in these situations where you're really spiraling about the future of the world.
The first is, again, a reminder that if you care, others must care as well.
When we feel anxious about large scale, I don't even want to call them issues, disasters, emergencies, whatever it is, part of what intensifies that anxiety is something called pluralistic ignorance.
This is a cognitive bias where we assume that our private concerns aren't shared by anybody else, even when they are, because really we can only ever know and fully feel our own thoughts.
What this means is that we look around and we're like, how come nobody else is worried about this?
How come nobody is caring about this?
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