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The other part of the article is the psychopaths' "relative indifference to setbacks" and their fearlessness.

> “The thing about fear, or the way I understand fear, I suppose—because, to be honest, I don't think I've ever really felt it—is that most of the time it's completely unwarranted anyway. What is it they say? Ninety-nine percent of the things people worry about never happen. So what's the point?

> “I think the problem is that people spend so much time worrying about what might happen, what might go wrong, that they completely lose sight of the present. They completely overlook the fact that, actually, right now, everything's perfectly fine.

> “So the trick, whenever possible, I propose, is to stop your brain from running on ahead of you.”



They sound almost like Stoics - minimising fear of unknowns, living in the moment, muted emotional responses to setbacks.


There are parallels, certainly.




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