Judith M. Bardwick - Anxiety Quotes

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If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.

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We know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety.... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

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