“All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.”
Norman Doidge
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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