Can Anxiety Be a Super-Power? Science Says Yes…ish. | Dr. Wendy Suzuki

Dr. Wendy Suzuki — NYU neuroscientist, incoming Dean, and author of Good Anxiety — joins this Best Of conversation to reframe anxiety as a signal to be tuned rather than a malfunction to be fixed. Drawing on her own lifelong social anxiety, she explains how a narrow band of the emotion stops running you and starts fueling you. She shares practices including a routine for converting a 3 a.m. spiral into forward motion, and why as little as ten minutes of walking lowers anxiety — with a timing detail most people miss. The conversation also covers how much of your own anxiety you can learn to predict, and what the form of anxiety you're most embarrassed by has quietly been training you to do for others.