Leverage. Optionality is the swiss army knife and leverage is 3/8ths in socket wrench.
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What is a good word for the mental state corresponding to leverage? Options exist as possibilities in your head more than as instruments in the world. But levers are more in the world. Feels like leverage does not capture the corresponding state of mind.
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Obligality? Vestedness? Locked-in-ness? I definitely see the shape of what you're pointing at, but I don't have a good name for that shape. Wanting-certainty/predictability is sort of the thing too...
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"Poise" is another word I've used to point at optionality. It's like how someone who is physically poised can readily move in any direction. That suggests an opposite like "bracedness", "load-bearing-ness"... still not coming up with anything elegant :-/
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Conviction
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Lockedinedness
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"cruxity": the feeling that something could be a pivotal factor in some important situation in the future
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Thinking about this further, when I imagine the job fair/speed-dating event, there's this metaphor of people being prepared or even zealous to "jump on the boat" with each other or something. And once you're on a boat you're kind of stuck with the other people on the boat.
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This resonates a little with
@michael_nielsen's reference to the Odyssey & Ulysses pact, and perhaps less obviously but more deeply with@vgr's "commitmentality": etymologically speaking, "commit" means "throw together". Two beings with a shared trajectory through life.
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Fatefulness
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