The importance of keeping your head

When things are not going the way you would like, it is important to keep your head. If your head falls off, then you will not be able to handle the situation. Instead you will have an additional problem, that of your head having fallen off. See, there it is, rolling around on the ground. It is horrifying. It is also horrified, screaming.

And you still have the original problem, which is that your house is on fire. So now you need to rescue your head from the burning flames or else you will be headless forever. Only after you get your head back can you keep working on the original problem—the inferno that has become your house.