Ranjay Gulati
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The judge threw him out, admonished him, threw him out, told his client, go find another lawyer.
So it made me realize that people find ways to resource themselves, to take on things that are the most terrifying things.
And I think if they can do it, there's hope for us.
Maybe we can learn something from that.
Great catch.
I skipped over that.
So I found there were two ways in which people cope with fear.
One was a belief in a higher power.
It's something that is very universal.
And by the way, in times of uncertainty, even in modern times, they find that people's attendance of religious institutions goes up.
So our belief in higher power increases when there is more uncertainty in our lives, it seems.
The other approach I find is interesting.
And I don't know if they're necessarily in opposition to each other.
The next one people sometimes lose.
I'm going to get more data.
I'm going to gather more data and more data and more data.
And I'm going to try and turn this uncertain situation into a certain situation.
I need to understand this completely.
And somehow I am going to nail this down.
Think about somebody getting a really difficult health diagnosis.