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danaris on Nov 10, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not sof...

5,000 years ago it kept us alive.

Now it just adds unnecessary stress and impedes our functioning 99.8% of the time. We no longer live in a situation where a tiger lurking in the bushes is likely, but our brains haven't evolved to compensate for that.

VeninVidiaVicii on Nov 10, 2021 [–]

I can't remember where I heard this but it makes sense -- People who don't have enough anxiety are at the morgue.

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