Grounded Audacity: How to Have Insane Things Without Stressing Your Way There

You want it all—the extraordinary wealth, the insane marriage, the white space on your calendar and the truly happy family (not just the one that looks happy on the Christmas card).

But when you want the Apex of everything, how do you hold the extraordinary possibility of it?

Most people fall into one of two camps, neither of which work:

One camp blindly decides it’s all going to work out, averts her eyes from any evidence to the contrary and is genuinely astonished when reality has follow-up questions.

The other creates a spreadsheet titled WORST CASE—FINAL—v7, anticipates every possible thing that could go wrong and calls the resulting anxiety “being responsible.”

One gets blindsided by problems. The other is never blindsided because she has already lived through each of them seventeen times in her imagination.

But what if you didn’t have to choose between delusion and constant dread?

In this episode:

* The surprising psychology behind blind optimism and defensive pessimism

* Why worrying can make you extraordinarily successful—and quietly miserable

* Why so many brilliant women mistake anxiety for responsibility

* The difference between identifying and planning for obstacles versus constantly expecting a disaster