So you're revising your beliefs to overcome sadness and anger. Awesome. But what about when you're unhappy because you're worried about the future?
You know the Serenity Prayer ?
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference."
Reinhold Nieburh came up with it around 1934. The Stoics were preaching that basic idea, oh, about 2000 years earlier .
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