
Anxiety isn't your enemy - it's your evolutionary superpower. In "Future Tense," psychologist Tracy Dennis-Tiwary reveals why embracing discomfort fuels creativity and resilience. Endorsed by Adam Grant and Alanis Morissette, this paradigm-shifting work asks: What if your anxiety is actually hope in disguise?
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A 5-year-old girl watches her father die. Decades later, as a neuroscientist, she discovers something startling: the very anxiety that haunted her childhood held the key to human flourishing. This isn't another story about conquering fear-it's about fundamentally misunderstanding what anxiety actually is. While 60 million American adults wrestle with anxiety disorders and parents watch their teenagers crumble under emotional pressure, we've been fighting the wrong battle. What if anxiety isn't the enemy? What if our relentless war against discomfort has made us more fragile, not stronger? Scott Parazynski dangles 250 miles above Earth, tethered by improvised equipment, repairing torn solar panels on the International Space Station. One wrong move means certain death. Yet this seven-hour spacewalk succeeded not because Parazynski conquered his anxiety, but because he listened to it. Here's the revelation: anxiety isn't fear's weaker cousin-it's an entirely different species. Fear is the jolt when a car swerves into your lane, immediate and reflexive. Anxiety lives in the gap between knowing something bad might happen and its arrival, between making plans and feeling helpless. It's uniquely human, requiring imagination to conjure futures that don't yet exist.
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