The Importance of Taking Action

Inaction is most prevalent when we're facing activities without strong cultural pressures. This may suggest that our gap of inaction is due to defaulting to our ancestral myopic approach to life. To take action then you need to not only have new inputs to your conscious mind to nudge you in the right direction but those nudges need to translate to other control systems as well. What separates everyday inaction from the clinical difficult these people who suffer depression or anxiety phase? Are these simply extreme versions of the slumps and avoidances we all face, or are anxiety and depression really separate mechanisms?"