theconjecturer asked: How can I get over my normal anxieties to better go with the flow when, say, a taxi driver drives me to the outskirts of a crumbling post-Soviet town and demands, in broken English I cannot understand fully, that I pay him more money or he leaves me there? Or when all my plans fall apart and I'm stuck making it all up as I go?

Clonopin. Also, buy a gun.