• ulterno@programming.dev
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      4 hours ago

      If something at the job is causing anxiety, perhaps you need to have it.
      If something other than something at the job, is causing anxiety, it’d probably be useful if it happened at a better time.

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        1 hour ago

        You’re correct. Anxiety about failing a test motivates students to study. Anxiety about losing your job motivates employs to work hard. It’s not the best motivation, but it is important. If people had no anxiety about failing, they wouldn’t work as hard to succeed.

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          47 minutes ago

          While I find it hard to relate to your examples, the basis of what I meant is the same.

          It is important that you know when you need to change the status quo. And in the current society, it is pretty easy to fall in a non-optimal comfort zone, where you are destroying yourself by the day. And even though you know it, you might not want to take the risk of destabilising your situation.

          Here, anxiety will help you take the leap and as long as you don’t make worse mistakes, you might find yourself in a better place.