Instead of making busyness a barrier to your anxiety, stop, acknowledge it, and sit with it.

Design your life based on your tolerance for uncertainty

People who learn to become more comfortable with uncertainty tend to rely on processes to help them navigate chaos. Those processes usually focus on two things: decreasing the amount of risk we expect and boosting our belief that we can handle uncertainty.

You have to look your anxiety in the face and say, “Thanks for trying to protect me. I see you.”

Successfully navigating change is not about trusting the world; it’s about trusting yourself.

The modern world makes it hard not to constantly track your progress against someone else’s: Glassdoor salaries, home square footage, vacation selfies, and your Bumble date’s high school soccer stats can be instantly summoned with a Google search.

Comparison is central to figuring out who we are.[6]

Behavioral scientists have shown that we’re overly optimistic about things we want to happen, we notice immediate changes but tend to overlook longer-term shifts, and we overemphasize the importance of new information that fits into our existing beliefs.

Carefully examine the seven big feelings of the modern world: uncertainty, comparison, anger, burnout, perfectionism, despair, and regret. Give you tools to better sit with these emotions, learn from them, and start the recovery process. Throw out the idea of a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, we’ll offer you a range of advice, so you can figur