Tajamul asked:

I have started new business. I'm very much terrified. The challenges are enormous. I'm in panic most
of the time. I want to calm down. Any suggestion?

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For the most part, these 'Ask a Philosopher' pages represent the tradition of European Analytic
Philosophy, which is a very wonderful philosophical tradition for dealing with science and
understanding, but a quite appallingly bad one at offering comfort and calm. If I guess correctly from
your name, surely your home traditions, whichever side of the border you are on, are much better
suited to soothing?

Having said that, the analytic faith does have a trick up its sleeve which never seems to fail. I suggest
you get yourself a couple of books by our more abstruse and idiosyncratic philosophers. Descartes is
good, so is Heidegger. Nietzsche is excellent, and so are Hegel and Kant. Don't bother reading them.
Just, whenever you are troubled, open one of the books at random, pick a paragraph, and spend
fifteen minutes trying to work out what on earth they are talking about. After that, by comparison, all
the problems of everyday life seem minuscule, petty and incredibly easy. It works for me.

Glyn Hughes