As somebody whom gets anxiety, my assumption was always that more intelligent people aren&#x27;t ignorant to the likes of science and such and therefore realize the gravity of possibly scenarios.<p>Few examples....I got a decent gash on my leg a few months ago. I was going out kayaking with some friends so I shaved my leg around the cut and wrapped it up nice and good with a duct tape bandage and water proof tape over that. I am not about to chance getting a flesh eating bacteria or something weird like that. Practically costs nothing to take a precaution. Another example, wearing a condom, even if you&#x27;re in a relationship with the same person and you&#x27;ve both been tested. What if birth control doesn&#x27;t work? What if she had unprotected sex with someone else? Not that I don&#x27;t trust her, I do, but what if? I also get extreme FOMO when choosing what backend language to learn (still haven&#x27;t chosen after a few months). Sometimes when looking at the documents for new libraries it takes me a few days to actually sit down to look at them from the anxiety that maybe I&#x27;ll be too stupid to understand the docs. This leads to me sitting at the computer staring at the docs but not actually reading because my mind is just in one huge clusterfuck looping around these thoughts and thinking what if I follow the instructions wrong?  I&#x27;ll have to start over and would have wasted time. Finally when I actually start typing and doing stuff I have no problem. While I know I just have to learn how to use these things once and I&#x27;ll know it &#x27;forever&#x27; and that just sitting there is actually wasting more time than I would be if I had to stay over 50 times, I just can&#x27;t help it.