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If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you've lived it twice: once in your mind and once when it happens.
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The quote warns that constant focus on disaster creates a second experience of the same pain. First, the mind repeatedly imagines the worst outcome; then, if it occurs, the person faces the real event as well. It does not deny that preparation can help. Instead, it cautions against treating a feared possibility as though it were already happening.
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