Worrying is not helpful.
If worrying could actually make the slightest difference to an outcome then it would be considered a success tactic.
If worrying helped ensure a result then companies would urge employees to worry about their products.
Sports teams would encourage fans to become anxious about their star player’s ankle injury.
Students would hammer down the front door of every relative they have to persuade them to agonise over their test scores.
If worrying could alter an outcome then there would be seminars on the latest insights into worrying.
Courses would crop up on how to increase your worrying.
Perhaps even some people will be able to make careers as professional worriers.
But unfortunately there is no correlation between worrying and results.
Which is good news really because it’s no fun.
Thomas Duggan 