4. The most amazing things that can happen to a human being will happen to you if you just lower your expectations.

Classical vocal music is either loved or really hated.

• If you've heard Beethoven's Ninth or Orff's "Carmina Burana" and liked them, look at Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde", which is a symphony of six songs based on Chinese poetry.
• Two gems are Richard Strauss's "Four Last ...

This sort of "catastrophizing" is really bad for your self-esteem because you spiral from a small error to basically believing that everything is doomed—and that's rarely the case. Challenge those thoughts with realistic and logical observations to reframe your conclusion.

The risk of unpleasant things happening is always there for everyone, and though it seems that job loss, divorce, financial fraud etc. only happens to other people, no one is exempt from these things, given enough time.