“How to stop worrying and start living” by Dale Carnegie, Chapter-9: Co-operate with the inevitable!

Imagine you opted for commerce in the 11th class and after graduating from business school you realized you should have done PCM in the 11th class and gone to engineering college.

You can't change the fact you have attended business school, but living in this regret won’t change your reality.

In this chapter, the author explains how accepting the inevitable is the best way to get happiness.

It doesn’t mean you, accept your flaws and never try to change them, but the inevitable should be forgotten. He explains how a person at an early age used to say “He could bear any pain but not the blindness in life”.

Eventually, at age of 71 years, he became blind. His name was John Milton, the greatest poet of his time. He said, “It is not miserable to be blind, it is only miserable not to be able to endure blindness”.

We often worry about the things over which we have 0% control, be it the weather or heat waves.

As Henry Ford said once “When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves”.