The Nuance

How Looking Ahead Can Hold You Back

Spending too much time thinking about your future can sabotage your present.

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
4 min readDec 16, 2021
Photo by alevision.co on Unsplash

The Roman philosopher Seneca once pointed out to a friend the folly of premature misery. “Those things you fear as if they were impending may never happen,” he observed.

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.