Feeling Anxious? I've Got A Mind To Relieve Your Stress

“Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.”

Have you ever waited for a reply to your email and panicked after five minutes that the person hasn't got back to you because they've been made so angry by it they're never going to talk to you again, ever? Or been ever so slightly concerned when someone leaves an AI company because he's 10 per cent convinced they're about to destroy humanity, including you, your best mate and the entire neighbourhood?

It's okay my friend, let me take you by the hand and lead you, gently, to a place of rational equanimity. With a bit of help from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. CBT is a simple easy-to-apply therapy developed in the 1960s that helps you to take your darkest thoughts and dial them down to something you can cope with - but guess what, the whole thing is based on a singe line of Shakespeare's that's guaranteed to calm you an instant. I'd love to tell you what it is but in ye ancient time-honoured tradition of clickbait I'm afraid you have to listen to the show to find out what it is.

Listen to how Brutus justifies killing Julius Caesar and work out that in order to take action you don't necessarily have to go down the 'assassinate the supreme leader' route.

Plays mentioned in this episode are Hamlet and Julius Caesar, which are more than enough to solve all your cognitive behavioural issues.

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