"Remember you will change alongside the situation Research on affective forecasting shows we are "notoriously bad" at predicting how we will feel about future events — we wildly overestimate both how devastating bad changes and how euphoric good ones will be. A deeper reason we get it wrong, Shankar explains, is that "we forget that we too will change as a result of the experience." The more useful question when facing a frightening change is not "how am I going to get through this?" but rather "how will that new version of me — with new abilities, perspectives, and values — navigate this change?" This reframe converts a paralyzing fear of the present into a curiosity about who you are becoming. Source: Maya Shankar, The Mel Robbins Podcast, Life Takes a Turn"