Seneca and Stoicism might be interesting to the HN crowd:
“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.” -Seneca
" Emotions like anxiety and fear have their roots in uncertainty and rarely in experience. Anyone who has made a big bet on themselves knows how much energy both states can consume. The solution is to do something about that ignorance. Make yourself familiar with the things, the worst-case scenarios, that you’re afraid of.
Practice what you fear, whether a simulation in your mind or in real-life.
Then you, your company, and your employees will have little left to keep you from thinking and acting big."
The downside is almost always reversible or transient.
“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.” -Seneca
" Emotions like anxiety and fear have their roots in uncertainty and rarely in experience. Anyone who has made a big bet on themselves knows how much energy both states can consume. The solution is to do something about that ignorance. Make yourself familiar with the things, the worst-case scenarios, that you’re afraid of.
Practice what you fear, whether a simulation in your mind or in real-life.
Then you, your company, and your employees will have little left to keep you from thinking and acting big."
The downside is almost always reversible or transient.
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/13/stoicism-101...