Oct. 24th, 2023
Yay, Anxiety
Oct. 24th, 2023 02:34 amMy secret superpower is...my anxiety. Annoying, but true. I'm always worried terrible things are going to happen which means I tend to overprepare for things. It also means if something bad does happen, it's probably not as much of a surprise to me because I was probably already worried that (or something similar) would happen. I mean it is also a problem sometimes when I go into critical anxiety overload, but that doesn't happen as much as it used to. Still always find things to worry about, though. It's not hard--our world is kind of a mess and I think any reasonable person would be worried about that.
Confidence and Fallibility
Oct. 24th, 2023 03:03 pmI think that there isn't essentially anyone who is consistently thoughtful about every important subject or topic. I think it's not even possible to think through everything important like that, and so because we as people mostly find it deeply unsatisfying to think that we didn't adequately consider such vital matters, we often convince ourselves we've thought more deeply about things than we actually have. I couldn't think of any studies on this specifically, though, so it's just a hypothesis I have based on my knowledge of human fallibility, confidence levels, and on the limits of what it is possible to know in general.
I haven't really thought about it deeply, you might say.