A new study figured how much of the stuff that we worry about actually comes true. Researchers at Penn State wanted to figure how much of what we worry about is actually worth worrying about. They asked 29 people with generalized anxiety disorder to keep a journal for 10 days to track everything that they worry about. After three weeks, they checked on how many of those worries came true.
As a result 91.4% of what we worry about didn't come true. In other words, less than 1 in 10 of the things we worry about is worth worrying about. The most common percentage of worries that came true for people in the study was 0%. So while some people did have worries come true, a lot of them didn't have a single bad thing actually happen.
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