"For the most part, **these businesses had little awareness they were in some historically significant depression**. Why? **Because the founders were too busy existing in the present—actually dealing with the situation at hand**. They didn’t know whether it would get better or worse, they just knew what was. They had a job they wanted to do, a great idea they believed in or a product they thought they could sell. They knew they had payroll to meet. "Yet in our own lives, **we aren’t content to deal with things as they happen. We have to dive endlessly into what everything “means,”** whether something is “fair” or not, what’s “behind” this or that, and what everyone else is doing. Then we wonder why we don’t have the energy to actually deal with our problems. Or we get ourselves so worked up and intimidated because of the overthinking, that if we’d just gotten to work we’d probably be done already." ([Location 673](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IX49OS4&location=673)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[adversity]], [[anxiety]], [[fear]], [[mindfulness]], [[resilience]], [[bias-to-action]], [[consistency]], [[habits]], [[story-bias]], [[overthinking]] **Source** -- [[202409180132 - B - The Obstacle is the Way]]