
The Unseen Battle: How Anxiety Fuels Achievement
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The Value of Anxiety
Anxiety is a primitive emotion that evolved to keep us alive and we need it. Our threat appraisal system, which is the physical manifestation of anxiety, is on overdrive these days for a lot of different reasons. And so I think we find ourselves feeling anxious more often than we ever did. The reason for that is uncertainty. Humans hate uncertainty and anxiety loves to fill the vacuum of uncertainty.
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