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106. Challenging Anxiety

The OptimalWork Podcast

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Is Displacement the Most Ordinary Way People Experience Emotional Stress?

I think displacement may be the most ordinary way people experience emotion. It even works in a strange way with addictions that whenever there's a stress in people's lives, then they will reflexively go to the addiction as the thing and the addiction gets worse. Many times addictions are just escapes, which is just another kind of anxiety. So it's true for every emotion that displacement is a powerful phenomenon.

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