Anxiety is contagious.
There is a difference between helping someone who is anxious and adopting their anxiety by osmosis.
I returned back to non-fiction this week. I was listening to ‘Justice’, a book about the philosophy of creating laws which was just too much at the moment and I needed some ‘mindless’ non-fiction.
I’ve been back to re-listen to ‘Time and Time again’ by Ben Elton.
Ben Elton is a very, very clever man.
In the midst of mindless non-fiction about time travel and preventing the first world war, in what is an absolutely fantastic and entertaining book, he’s able to remind me of how to deal with anxiety by osmosis.
I have spent a considerable amount of time setting my direction forwards. That would be my strategy if I was a military man.
When the strategy is set the task ahead of me is almost unimaginable but it is of course just a collection of tiny tasks.
In ‘Time and Time Again’ Hugh Stanton, the hero, talks about that in military terms.
When you’re hanging off a precipice five days from the nearest water, there is no point worrying about water.
You must first correct the situation of the hanging off precipice and then you can worry about the water.
The problem with adopting anxiety by osmosis in the new pandemic is that we are all trying to fix everything all at once.
I know it’s tired, I know it’s been said before a billion times but you can only eat an elephant one bite at a time.
Next, next, next and all of a sudden we’re in a marginally better position.
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