The Worry Solution - A Conversation with Marty Rossman MD
Our guest is Professor Martin Rossman, whose work has paralleled mine for several decades, during which time we have been colleagues and friends.
There seems to be so much to worry about these days – from global warming and peak oil to our children’s schools, our jobs, and even whether the food we eat has been contaminated – it seems impossible to predict what will come next.
If you’re one of the people who worries about any of the con...
The Worry Solution - A Conversation with Marty Rossman MD
Our guest is Professor Martin Rossman, whose work has paralleled mine for several decades, during which time we have been colleagues and friends.
There seems to be so much to worry about these days – from global warming and peak oil to our children’s schools, our jobs, and even whether the food we eat has been contaminated – it seems impossible to predict what will come next.
If you’re one of the people who worries about any of the concerns I just mentioned – or about your teenage kid, your job, your health, or what those people in Washington some folks call “idiots” are going to do next – then this is a show you would definitely be interested in.
Did you know that there’s good worry and bad worry?
Apparently nature has wired us to worry, and so Dr. Rossman explains in his book, The Worry Solution, that it’s futile to try to stop. The good news is that worry itself is a neutral function of our imagination — a reflection of the brain’s ability to look at a problem from many different angles and to identify different pieces of the puzzle. In this interview Dr. Rossman will share the difference between good worry and bad worry, and tell us how to use worry effectively, that is how to worry well!
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