Many dangerous and normally dreaded events — such as the possibility of your becoming diabetic if you happen to be born into a family that has a high incidence of this disease — would not actually be so handicapping if they did occur as your worries about their occurrence often will make them appear to be.

Albert ELLIS

(SPP?)

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The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.