Anxiety By Another Name By Collier Summary

Anxiety and Challenge In the essay “Anxiety: Challenge by another name,” author James Lincoln Collier gave three rules that he made to connect the idea of anxiety and challenge with personal development. The first rule is that we should do things that make us “anxious” and avoid what make us depressed. Collier shares his experience on how he deals with his choice of careers. Even though, he was afraid of writing as a job, he still decided to take the risk of being a writer and be able to make a living. The second rule is that we have to face with what make us anxious by doing it multiple times so that we can eliminate the anxiety. Interviewing famous people always makes Collier anxious, but he keeps doing the job and became excited about …show more content…
Collier had become an experienced traveler because he decides to travel three months in Europe, the job that he never tried it before. I agree with Collier’s position that anxiety should be viewed as “challenge by another name” because Collier’s three rules tell us how anxiety can make us to overcome a challenge and develop personal skills. Anxiety can be seen as a challenge because the things that people want can make them anxious but they still have to do that. My brother, who has a hard time deciding what he wants to do with his life, afraids that his major could not help him for a stable job. When my brother entered college two years ago, he chose math major because he loves it. My parents opposed the idea. They thought that he could not find a stable job with the math major. Also they thought he might be too young to realize what would be the best for him. They wanted him to do majors that relate to medical field. He did not like it and had a hard time trying to explain to my parents. He persuaded them multiple times and my parents started to give up and just let what he wanted to do. I was admired by his actions because I thought that he had the courage to persuade my …show more content…
I remembered when I first started driving on freeway by myself. Before that, I had experiences driving on local streets or on freeway with my family, but I had never done that by myself. I always scared of going on freeway by myself. I scared of how other cars go too fast and cars just change lane spontaneously. I was more calm on freeway when other people were there to support me. So one day I tried to go on freeway by myself. I had to learn going on that alone because other were not always going to be there for me. I drove on the entrance of the freeway and I was kind of overwhelmed by the speed of other car. I tried to calm myself and thought I am going to be okay. I drove for half an hour to my grandparents house and exited the freeway. When I arrived at their house, I felt so tired and my mind kind of went blank. I felt what I just did is like an accomplishment for myself. I kept practicing multiple times and now I like going on freeway instead of local streets because I go faster on freeway. Driving on freeway is some kind of fear for other people like my aunt because she has driver license for 20 years but she never been on freeway. I was scared of driving on freeways by myself too but I saw that anxiety is a challenge that I need to defeat. I tried to eliminate my anxiety by continue doing it until I felt comfortable and excited about that. Opposite with me,