Funny yet very predictable how negativity bias works in humans. I’m always scanning for all kinds of threats and risks to my personal survival. I’m super apprehensive with financial, professional, social and romantic processes and goals. Constantly finding faults, having regrets, emotionally overreacting to events and losses. IOW, constantly feeling like a failure as a result. Makes sense since all these themes are intrinsically tied to my survival: resources, shelters, social safety nets.
How come I’m not even close to be as sensitive to any risks and failures to my actualist process and goal? This seems also obvious, since the ties to me as an individual don’t seem as direct compared to said core needs. Immediate survival is not at stake. What is at stake though? Harmony, peace on earth… And yet these don’t feel like primary needs to ‘me’ intuitively speaking.
A challenge then may be understanding existentially what’s really and fundamentally at stake here, and elevate it all from secondary to primary needs (?) to start intuit them as core; therefore becoming way more sensitive to any threat, risk or failure to my own actualist process and goal, and then ramp up my commitment and effort to prevent and correct any deviation more often.