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The Worrier Gene

Have you noticed how there is always something wrong? No matter how ideal circumstances are, something will go awry shortly. All this may be obvious, I suppose. What is less obvious is how the perception and experience of good fortune and misfortune are complimentary. As chapter 58 puts it, Misfortune, yet of good fortune its […]

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Mar 25, 2013 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Autobiographical Tagged With: 'the constant', emergent property, fear, food, freedom, hunter gatherer, imagination, learning, need, perfection, religion, shopping, understanding, worry, yoga

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