On the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s first spacewalk, his left eye went blind. His right eye teared up and froze too. He was plunged into complete darkness, teetering on the edge of an abyss of even more darkness. He would later say the key to such situations is to remind oneself, “There are six things that I could do right now, all of which will help make things better.” And while it is worth remembering that, as he said, “there’s no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse also.” We can’t forget that all the energy we spend fearing that we’ll make it worse is energy not spent making
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