If you're the person who has 47 half-finished creative projects and society makes you feel guilty about it:
Those aren't failures. They're experiments. You're not broken. You're researching what makes your soul come alive.
Keep exploring.
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Vigilance and Anxiety When you’re awake and not doing anything in particular, the baseline resting state of your brain activates a “default network,” and one of its functions seems to be tracking your environment and body for possible threats (Raichle et al. 2001). This basic awareness is often accompanied by a background feeling of anxiety that
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Things are made trickier still by the fact that society frequently encourages us to be suspicious and fearful. Our newspapers are filled with stories of violent crime. Conspiracy theories abound. Crime has apparently reached such high levels that CCTV cameras are required in every town centre.