Uselessness of being worried

Being worried is a very human emotion. Being no expert (on anything, really), I believe it comes from our frontal lobe's ability to imagine/project the future.

The way I see it, when we don't have enough information to assess a future happening to our own satisfaction, we worry. It's not really the outcome itself that worries us, but the insecurity tied to the outcome of the future event.

The interesting thing is that we know very well that worrying doesn't help us in any way what so ever. It won't give us the information we need, and if anything, it will prevent us from making a decision.

What can we do about this? Here is my personal "recipe".

1. Being concious about our inability to really know anything about the future (including next five minutes), anyway.
2. Accept that a low amount of information for future decision making is ok! We usually probably only have 15-20% of the information we really need, but we usually overestimate it's value by something like 4 times meaning we believe we have between 60-80% of the information we need. A reduction from 15% to 5% isn't really very much, in both cases we don't know squat. But the perceived reduction from 60% to 20% seems very much
3. Take risks and smile at them :-) Life goes on