What we can learn from the 1934 “Worry Table”

Are you a worrier?

Natural born?

For the record, I always was too.

It’s what drove me to study law — a kind of problem-solving, which — for a worrier — is a primal instinct.

I figured I’d get myself a formal education in problem-solving, and then I’d be well equipped (and employed) to solve all the problems that could possibly arise.

And with that formal training, I wouldn’t have to worry so much….

Right?

Wrong.

Hindsight is 20/20 — I get it. And you probably saw it coming.

You called it, in that tragic, “It’s behind You” pantomime kind of way.

We all know it in theory at least: Life just doesn’t work like that.

It is inherently unpredictable.
It is uncertain.
It is unstable.
It is change, it is flux.

Sure. The law is a framework to rationally apply to and solve problems.

But it doesn’t help reduce worrying, because worrying is *roughly* 90% irrational.

There’s the kicker.