Meet the Ancestors
‘You can't indulge in blue sky thinking when the clouds are thundering and the rain is torrential.’
Richard Gerver
Catastrophising is in your genes. It's been passed down through the ages, not just by religion and the Cynics, but by everyone.
It's the same with all creatures. Let's take mice as an example. Famously, it's always the second mouse that gets the cheese. The positive, confident, happy-go-lucky mouse was a victim of its own enthusiasm and never got round to passing its genes on! The bar on the mouse trap comes down with one hell of a thwack.
In a similar fashion, it's your most cautious ancestors that survived. If ...
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