Morning musings: Motivation is a scarce resource. Why do some harbour more than others? Can motivation be cultivated, or is it innate? Further, can motivation be imposed externally, or does it come from within the individual?
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If someone is anxious there is absolutely a reason for it. A biological one, I mean. The needs of the body are infinitely complex. The most dangerous position is to claim that someone "should be" fine, when they clearly are not. Reality doesn't make mistakes, in my experience.
between fear & desire, this makes desire-based motivation hard to tap
*(I've updated a few times about how long)
Fair addition. though I imagine the function of anxiety to traditionally be something that propels you to remedy a life-threatening situation. modern life has very little in the way of life-threatening scenarios, but the feelings remain.
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They are deadly at finer level of detail than past worries: "Will it kill me before I raise lots of procreative children?" Now we care about solving global problems, which take more time and mental health. A stroke at 50, or just Omega-3 deficiency, can hinder memetic evolution.
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I would reframe this as "modern life-threatening scenarios are made *MORE* threatening by acute anxiety rather than less". So it's less about amount of risk but about the response being maladaptive for the situation. I think something much more clear & precise is also possible.
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