@aston I like that concept of "proving your anxiety wrong". What you can do is replace your thinking with another approach of how to think about something in a more positive way. Use creativity as a guide to figure this out, like a detective. When you find the event that colored your thinking, you can re-evaluate it and see it through fresh eyes and from a more experienced perspective, and you might just find that the former thoughts don't make sense anymore... then you've grown and can be grateful for new thinking and understanding. You're right, anxiety can be an inspiration to achieve great things.