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On this episode, I talk about 3 of the 6 human needs: certainty, variety, and significance. Certainty is the need for being in familiar territory. Anxiety sufferers are in the unknown (chaos) and seek to make their overwhelming questions answered. Variety (order) is the opposite of certainty. The unknown. This need is to seek out new information. Having too ... Show More
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