In the corridors of power in Russia, a curious anecdote about Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev and his mother unfolds.
The story is told that the late Premier wanted to impress his old mother from Ukraine. First, he showed her through his sumptuous apartment in Moscow. Worried, she said nothing. Then he drove her in his chauffeured black limousine to his dacha or second home in Usovo, showed her the marble reception rooms, and treated her to a fine lunch of caviar and crab. She still appeared unimpressed but quite worried.
Mathematically speaking, it doesn’t make sense to worry. Psychologists and other researchers say that roughly 40 percent of what we worry about will never happen, and 30 percent has already happened. Additionally, 12 percent of our worries are over unfounded health concerns. Another 10 percent of our worries involve the daily miscellaneous fretting that accompanies nothing. That leaves only eight percent. Plainly speaking, many are worrying 92 percent of the time for no good reason, and if Dr.
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