How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Business men who do not know
how to fight worry die young.”
—DR. Alexis Carrel

Rule 2 is: If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H. Carrier by doing these three things:
1. Ask yourself,' 'What is the worst that can possibly happen?"
2. Prepare to accept it if you have to.
3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

reconciled myself to the worst that could happen—in my case, dying. And then I improved upon it by trying to get the utmost enjoyment out of life for the time I had left…

I hadn't been thinking, I had only been worrying!

'Face the worst

From that time on, I was able to think."

we have everything to gain! "

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose.

acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

Willis H. Carrier's magic formula