{"id":892,"date":"2009-01-19T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/how-im-learning-to-stop-worrying\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T15:26:02","slug":"how-im-learning-to-stop-worrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/how-im-learning-to-stop-worrying\/","title":{"rendered":"How I&#8217;m Learning to Stop Worrying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Serenity Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want to save wasted energy, stress and pain, stop worrying about things when you don\u2019t have any power to control them. Ignoring something when you\u2019ve decided not to do anything about it. This can mean completely ignoring something that appears important, but you know is irrelevant, or ignoring something when you choose not to invest energy fixing it.<\/p>\n<h2>A Confession<\/h2>\n<p>In my life, I constantly fail at applying this idea.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a high-energy, focused personality and I\u2019m raised by a family of worriers.\u00c2\u00a0 I inherited many great things, but an easy-going perspective wasn\u2019t one of them. If the Serenity Prayer was a report card, I\u2019d score highly on the second verse, moderately on the last and fail completely on the opening line.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u2019m great at focusing on goals, but I, like many people, have difficulty doing the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>But, despite my natural weakness with this idea, I\u2019m putting effort into improving at it.\u00c2\u00a0 The bias of this website is that I tend to write only where my strengths are.\u00c2\u00a0 Some people get the mistaken idea that I must be good at everything.\u00c2\u00a0 I assure you (as anyone who knows me in person will agree), that this isn\u2019t the case. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>Forget Trite Advice, Look for Something Practical<\/h2>\n<p>So, how can I, someone who is horribly inclined towards needless worry, help kill the habit.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u2019ll admit, on the surface, my prospects seem grim.\u00c2\u00a0 Personality traits are largely heritable, so even if I practice a discipline of non-attachment, I\u2019ll still be me.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, worrying is something difficult to control.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike a behavior, this only exists in my thoughts, so there isn\u2019t the buffer of conscious control to help me stop.<\/p>\n<p>My strategy is based on three principles:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Most problems are of degree, not of kind<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0 If I can reduce wasted energy from needlessly overthinking issues only by 5%, that\u2019s a victory.\u00c2\u00a0 I will never be able to perfectly focus my attention, but I can make small changes and still make improvements.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Your life philosophy affects your thoughts<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0 My strategy for thought-change has always been to change the explicit philosophy I have.\u00c2\u00a0 When I change how I evaluate myself and my behavior, I can steer my thinking.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Your environment affects your behavior<\/span>. Changing your philosophy is half the battle, the other half is to change the structure of your life to eliminate the forces that encourage the problem.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Changing Your Philosophy<\/h2>\n<p>My life philosophy is my articulated views on life.\u00c2\u00a0 Either the ideas that I\u2019ve written down, spoken to other people or thought inside my head. I have many beliefs that I never speak, but still believe. However, I wouldn\u2019t consider these part of my philosophy on life.<\/p>\n<p>My theory of self improvement is that if I can change my philosophy towards an issue (that is my explicit beliefs and thoughts), I can control my behavior.\u00c2\u00a0 If my philosophy isn\u2019t made explicit, I can\u2019t have conscious control, since, by my definition, philosophy equals consciously held beliefs.\u00c2\u00a0 So, in simpler terms, if I can change how I view worrying, I will do it less.<\/p>\n<h2>Unnecessary Focus<\/h2>\n<p>What, exactly, do I want to stop doing?\u00c2\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to stop thinking about my goals.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u2019ve already written that I believe some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/30\/life-balance-is-overrated\/\">degree of obsession<\/a> on the things you want helps them be realized. I\u2019m not going to throw in the towel and become indifferent to everything in life.<\/p>\n<p>I really want to stop two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Thinking about problems when the timing isn\u2019t right.<\/li>\n<li>Thinking about problems that aren\u2019t worth the effort.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the last four months, I did a bad job with the first task. I was busy working in a competitive team on an open-ended project to write and pitch a business plan. As a result, I allowed myself to think about it constantly, even when I wasn\u2019t working on it. This meant for every 4 hours of work, I might have been wasting another 8 hours of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I realized my mistake only a month ago.\u00c2\u00a0 By clarifying to myself why my worrying was ridiculous and unnecessary, I could help curb it. Once I define the input I need to make into the project, I resolve to stop thinking about the project when I\u2019m not working. So far this has been helpful, since it has made me more productive with less stress.<\/p>\n<p>One benefit of digging into my unconscious beliefs about the issue (and thus making them part of my philosophy), was that I realized part of my stress was for status.\u00c2\u00a0 I was operating in a group project, and I wanted to show my commitment by constantly working. I felt guilty for not stressing, because I felt it sent the message I wasn\u2019t serious about the project.\u00c2\u00a0 Although this was a legitimate concern, making it explicit made me realize that it was a destructive strategy.<\/p>\n<h2>Changing Your Philosophy Isn\u2019t Enough<\/h2>\n<p>Simply clarifying that your current thought patterns are bad, doesn\u2019t necessarily change them. On top of that, it\u2019s good to make some changes to your environment to keep you behaving.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have bad habits, it\u2019s probably because the structures of your life encourage (or at least, don\u2019t discourage) the bad habit.\u00c2\u00a0 This applies to thought habits like worrying just as much as it does to exercising, studying or procrastinating.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, this meant putting more faith in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/how-to-finish-your-work-one-bite-at-a-time\/\">weekly\/daily goals system<\/a> as a way to handle all of the tasks associated with the project. Although I have been using the system for years, the competitive pressures of the project had caused me to stop relying on it.\u00c2\u00a0 As a result, I was putting pressure on myself to keep working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/relax-without-feeling-lazy-kill-open-loops\/\">open loops<\/a> even after my to-do list was complete.<\/p>\n<h2>Will I Be Able to Change?<\/h2>\n<p>In the short term, probably not. Generally to make a large change to my disposition in life, I need to go through many different strategies, each of them only partially effective. So I expect I\u2019ll probably fall back into my old patterns of focusing on things when it isn\u2019t timely. However, if I keep digging into my unconscious beliefs and making them part of my philosophy, as well as changing my environment to control my behavior, I think I\u2019ll eventually make some progress.<\/p>\n<p>Everything that is a concrete part of my philosophy on life today (having goals, changing habits, the importance of health and energy, productivity, etc.), first had to go through the bumpy process of being an idea into a reality. I may be pessimistic in the short-term, but I\u2019m incredibly optimistic in the long-term.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I\u2019d share this with you, because I tend to write everything in postmortem.\u00c2\u00a0 I write about problems after I\u2019ve solved them. 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