We're faced with an annoyance of our own making: call it turbulence, call it discomfort. To what degree are we supposed to ignore it or suffer it stoically or fight it? 

What should Dovid say to his kids when the plane is bouncing around? What should you do when you hit those big bumps in the road, or realize you're just going to be driving on gravel for the next 200 miles?

In this episode, Metaphor Guru Adam — he once called a confluence of bad things a "perfect storm"!  Brilliant — takes us on a trip into the bumpy air of pessimistic complacency vs. small-goal realism.

Oh, and Adam grows a beard.