The Waste of Worry
Story★★★★Somebody did a study about the average person and what they worry about, and they found that 40% of what people worry about never happens. Reminds me of that lady that was always telling people, don’t tell me worry doesn’t do any good, the things I worry about never happen. She thought that’s because she worried about them. 40% of what people worry about never happens.
30% of what people worry about has already happened and you can’t do anything about it. Have you ever spent time worrying about regrets? Or you come away from a difficult conversation and you keep thinking about what you should have said? I’ve done that.
Or you’ve made bad decisions and you just keep rehashing it and then, you know, every now and then, you can’t change it. It’s in the past. But we still worry about things that’s too late.
Spend time in regret. 12% worry about what others say about them, and you can’t really change much about that. 10% worry deals with your health and of course worrying about your health can always make your health worse. That means that leaves about 8% of things that are worth consideration.
Most of what we worry about is really a big waste of time.
Batchelor, Doug, “02 Worrying About Stuff” (AudioVerse teaching 29686).
The point
A study on worry reveals that 40% of worries never materialize, 30% are about the unchangeable past, 12% concern others' opinions, and 10% relate to health (which worry can worsen), leaving only 8% as potentially productive concerns, highlighting the immense futility of most worry.