> stress is created when people aren't in control. I think the "Serenity Prayer" is spot on, even though it reads like a 3-part joke with a punchline (paraphra

> stress is created when people aren't in control. I think the "Serenity Prayer" is spot on, even though it reads like a 3-part joke with a punchline (paraphrased): Don't try to change what you can't change Try to change what you can change Learn which is which Because if you get them mixed up, it's either frustrating or immobilizing. Of course, you often can't know til you try, the very process of learning. Learning isn't intrinsically stressful... it's when you insist that things should be how you expect them to be that has that peculiarly frustrating quality. It's closing your eyes to reality - delusional. Suggestion: if you find yourself saying things like "Why isn't this working!?", "What's wrong with this thing!?", take the rhetorical question literally... because there is something you don't know. Focus on finding out what it is (i.e. seeing reality), and that peculiar stress will disappear.