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Certain level of paranoia can actually be beneficial in some lines of work.

Bobby Fischer suffered from severe paranoia and constantly feared being poisoned among other unlikely things. But that flaw was also a great source of strength when he played chess.

Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel, wrote a book called "Only the Paranoid survive". An example of how some level of paranoia can help you as a CEO.

I think the secret is: balance. Surely bad things can happen: we can choke like eating, or hit by space debris and die but winning the lottery is probably more likely.