Seneca and Stoicism might be interesting to the HN crowd:

“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.” -Seneca

" Emotions like anxiety and fear have their roots in uncertainty and rarely in experience. Anyone who has made a big bet on themselves knows how much energy both states can consume. The solution is to do something about that ignorance. Make yourself familiar with the things, the worst-case scenarios, that you’re afraid of.

Practice what you fear, whether a simulation in your mind or in real-life.

Then you, your company, and your employees will have little left to keep you from thinking and acting big."

The downside is almost always reversible or transient.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/04/13/stoicism-101...