This fear can be helpful, but only in moderation.

There are key areas of life that we can and should control, like our schedules, our self-perception and the words we speak, but there are things in life that are outside our control.

Practice looking into your camera during video conferences when you speak, even for brief moments.
It's challenging to focus on your camera for an entire meeting, but know that you increase the impact of your points when you look deep into it.

Solipsism – the view that only the self exists while the external world is an illusion – grasps at something true but can't be meaningfully articulated. Solipsism represents the inexpressible nature of self and world – philosophy's task isn't to speak the unspeakable, but to ackn...