Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.
Matt Damon admits he got completely lost in Anne Hathaway’s eyes while filming The Odyssey and Christopher Nolan couldn't stop raving about the dailies:
"I looked in your eyes and that was it... I got completely transported."
"Chris said after he saw the dailies that he was really excited about how it worked, and I said,
'That was Annie!'"
"It's like surfing a wave—you don't even have to think about it, you're just off."