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Comment by isthisthingon99 | Hacker News Reader

It's difficult but "worry only about that which you can control" is a reasonable rule for sensitive people to follow. I can only control my actions. Nothing else. I can't even control my feelings.

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Some feelings can be controlled by appropriate action. For instance if you experience fear because you don't know how something may end. You may start doing research on it and explore different outcomes. Often turns out that these outcomes aren't actually bad and such information makes fear disappear in an instant.

In my world, controlling your feeling means being able to turn it off or change it by sheer will. But yes most feelings can and should be managed through positive actions which you can control.

controlling feeling is black and white all we need absence of blood flow so we can tense our muscles we can go to near hypothermic conditions and stil we are subject to the brain stem survival needs and whos to say that doesnt have feeling

You should become a therapist dude, I didn't know it was that easy!

Next up: homeless people should just start doing research on the property market and buy a house.

Didn't say it is easy. Not sure why such a negativity. Are you okay?

this dangerous line of reasoning we can to a large degree control our actions however this idea of control in the first place is in the wrong frame ihmho

Explain why? Most misery comes from expectations.

And also most joy.

How else would you overcome the basic risk of doing anything?

Both joy and misery are to be expected, but in both cases you must be careful of how you act in reaction to these feelings.

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