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It's in times of crisis that you see one's true habilities. No matter how small the actual matter, it's how we perceive it that govern our reactions. One's inhability to properly react to the matter at hand show how secure we feel in our habilities and in ourselves. Panicking never helped anyone and usually causes more trouble than helping anything.

But if panic is very unhelpfull, why do we do it?

Panic is a very humane reaction. Panic comme from the notion that the situation seems too big, a change too rapid in the situation. It is a rapid evaluation on ours own habilities in contrast to ours immediate envirronnement. Panic comes from the impression that we aren't ready and aren't capable of dealing with the crisis. Panic does not come from the crisis, but from ourselves. It's not what the situation itself, but more what we think we can do that defines how we react.

I know it's a bit oversimplified a bit, but it's still a good thing to remember.

It's the same thing with almost everything we encounter in everyday life. I see this everyday with people and computers. Some people panic at the first sign of an error message. This reaction comes from a complete lack of understanding how the machine works. An irrational reaction, sometimes without even reading the error message. Problem is, These are also the same people who "can't learn the how to use the computer" because they think it's too complicated. The computer is not the problem. It's their reaction that is. If they simply learned not to panic and take things little by little, they might make more progress. The computer might stay a complicated thing, but at least they would have learn not to panic.

And they would be one step closer to understanding...