Economist and futurist Nasim Taleb in his book “Antifragile. How to benefit from chaos" continues to develop the theme of black swans, fatal events that occur suddenly and can radically change our lives. Whether we can not only withstand the blow, but benefit from it, primarily depends on the psychological stability of a person, the antifragility of the system in in general. During this period of turbulence, it is important to develop psychological stability, which implies several things: - The ability to interact with internal anxiety; - The ability to use anxiety as an internal resource; - Knowledge of ways to interact with collective anxiety; - The ability to withstand a blow; - Flexibility of thinking and behavior; - Rapid adaptability of the psyche as a whole. According to the Hamburg account, the tests prepared for us by fate are the highest manifestation of reality. It's time to meet it face to face. A Sufi parable about the plague is now popular on social networks: “Where are you going?” - asked the wanderer, having met the Plague. “I’m going to Baghdad. I need to kill five thousand people there.” A few days later the same man met Chuma again. “You said that you would kill FIVE thousand people, but you killed FIFTY,” he reproached her. “No,” she objected, “I only killed five thousand, the rest died of fear.” Collective anxiety and fear lead to mass hysteria. People become more irritable and, therefore, less resistant to stress. This affects relationships in the family, health, and efficiency at work. This makes us be less humane, self-centered, and throws us back into archaic thinking and interaction. Collective anxiety is a signal of a radically changing situation in the world. Any loss of stability, initially perceived as a threat, can later become a significant improvement in the conditions of existence in this world. No matter how cynical the quotes from “Black Swan” sound. Under the sign of uncertainty" Taleb, but "every disaster brings us closer to the ideal of safety, improving the system as a whole, the dead contribute to the safety of other people. Changeability entails mistakes and adaptation.”Emergencies destroy the usual way of life and destabilize society. In the life of an individual, this manifests itself in anxiety, fear, and panic. Is there a Bronze Horseman, there will always be Evgeniy and poor Parasha. Trying to find an answer to a question that is very personal for me too, how not to become a hostage to collective and personal anxiety, I thought that the current situation is my existential challenge. And I need to group myself, because I am responsible not only for my family, but also for my readers, who, including thanks to “Snob,” are all over the world. I will not reinvent the wheel and turn to the classics of world psychology. First of all, this is Viktor Frankl, the founder of existential psychotherapy, the psychology of meaning, who went through the horror of a fascist concentration camp during World War II. I had the good fortune to attend his lecture while studying at Moscow State University. When the professor entered the classroom, the audience burst into applause. The light of the personality of an outstanding person is still with me. And this helps now to write, work and cope with anxiety. While preparing the article, I re-read Frankl’s book “Say Yes to Life!” Psychologist in a concentration camp.” Even before the war, Viktor Frankl had largely completed the development of his theory of the desire for meaning as the main driving force of behavior and personality development. And in the concentration camp she received the test of life - the greatest chances of survival, according to Frankl’s observations, were not those who were distinguished by the strongest health, but those who were distinguished by the strongest spirit, who had a meaning for which to live. He went through the horror of the concentration camp, preserving himself, his personality, his “stubbornness of spirit,” as he calls a person’s ability not to give in, not to break under the blows falling on the body and soul. “Stubbornness of the spirit” is the resource that helps us cope with anxiety during a black attack.