What matters is that we find a way—any way—to recharge and renew ourselves. My screensaver is a picture of gazelles: They are my role models. They run and flee when there is a danger—a leopard or a lion approaching—but as soon as the danger passes, they stop and go back to grazing peacefully without a care in the world. But human beings cannot distinguish between real dangers and imagined ones. As Mark Williams explains, “The brain’s alarm signals start to be triggered not only by the current scare, but by past threats and future worries.… So when we humans bring to mind other threats and
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