SBTM September 2015 | Page 36

EDITORIAL FEATURE The High Price of Anxiety                      By Kim Sawyer Anxiety is an internal construct with no relation to the outside world. Fear is about staying alive and winning the right to play again tomorrow. Anxiety doesn’t protect you from danger; it prevents you from doing great things. I was rereading (well, re-skimming) Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers recently. It is a reasonably good read – enjoyable, but not much that is new or particularly