How to Cope If the Worst Came to the Worst..

Many of us suffer enormous anxieties about what might happen if the worst came to the worst. Well-meaning friends often reassure us that things might go really well, but there is often great relief to be found in imagining the darkest scenarios and being able to see that we could, ultimately, survive them. For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://bit.ly/2x0i5Ib Join our mailing list: http://bit.ly/2e0TQNJ Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://bit.ly/2s28NX5 2x4nxts FURTHER READING “In the background, many of us are terrified of so much – disgrace, illness, sacking, our mortality, the suffering and death of loved ones… When these fears come up, we are often encouraged, out of kindness, to think of the best-case scenarios. It’s a well-meaning move, but it also – unintentionally – leaves our fears to fester; they fill us with unnamed dread and sometimes loom far larger than they should. So an opposite move – displayed here – involves looking our anxieties directly in the eye, refusing to be cowed by them and examining them in exhaustive detail so as to drain them of their debilitating power. Doing so is liable to bring us to an important realisation: we could cope – even if the worst came to the worst…” You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https://bit.ly/2s4OZRU MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Visit us in person at our London HQ: https://bit.ly/2x19m8y Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself You can submit translations and transcripts on all of our videos here: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog&tab=2 Find out how more here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6054623?hl=en-GB SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: 2x4nxts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Mad Adam Films http://madadamfilms.co.uk/ Illustration from The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay (1918) Copyright © H, C and A Glad. Images and Music from: Brazil 1985 Citizen Kane 1941 The Singing Detective 1986 Rogue One 2016 A Christmas Carol 2009 Clouds of Sils Maria 2014 The Wind in the Willows 1995 Nosferatu 1922 Pan s Labyrinth 2006 BBC Cunk on Britain 2018 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Another Year 2010 The Horse s Mouth 1958 BBC Life on Earth 1979 The Moon and the Sledgehammer 1971 American Honey 2016 Phantom Thread 2017 The Kid with the Bike 2011 Almost Famous 2000 Only Lovers Left Alive 2013 #TheSchoolOfLife