Most of us are still walking around with our appendices. Those pesky appendages that don’t really do anything useful except cause us to have emergen

LFG: Let’s Fearlessly Go - by Ben Goldstein - Less Heavy

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Most of us are still walking around with our appendices. Those pesky appendages that don’t really do anything useful except cause us to have emergency surgery at the most inconvenient time. And hey, if you’re in a pickle at work you can always say, “brb my appendix burst,” but in my experience, this only works once per job.

The appendix isn’t the only outdated thing we’ve got. Our brains, miraculous, beautiful organs that they are, are also filled with some pretty damn annoying evolutionary leftovers. Yeah anxiety can be useful in keeping the cave fire going, or watching carefully out for wooly mammoths, but today it mostly keeps a lot of psychs in business, and a lot of people in misery.

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Fear is the same way. Once useful, still sometimes useful, but more often than not, another way our brains mess with us just for laughs. We haven’t evolved to our modern moment, wherein most of our needs are met, where, on the whole, we’re pretty safe. And even though some of might not leave the cozy security of our houses, or even our beds, we feel beset, often crippled even, by fear.