Huh, people really do have a lot of variation between them. I’d personally call anxiety a subtype of fear, but I suspect I have coarser grained emotional labels than some or even most.
Regardless, it’s fascinating you don’t experience anxiety when thinking about death. I guess unless we ever find something to actually prevent it for it you’re certainly luckier than I.
people really do have a lot of variation between them.
Big understatement, and insanely easy to forget. https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/typical-mind-fallacy has been common knowledge for a long time, but it keeps surprising me just how many dimensions it applies to. That said, it doesn’t surprise me at all that anxiety experience is one of the highly-variable dimensions.
Note that it varies across time as well as between individuals. I used to be much more fearful of death (and physical pain, and failure at work, and many other things) than I am now. Part of it is intentional meditation, introspection, and therapy, but a lot of it seems to be just age. I’m simply more accepting of things than I was a few decades ago.
Huh, people really do have a lot of variation between them. I’d personally call anxiety a subtype of fear, but I suspect I have coarser grained emotional labels than some or even most.
Regardless, it’s fascinating you don’t experience anxiety when thinking about death. I guess unless we ever find something to actually prevent it for it you’re certainly luckier than I.
Big understatement, and insanely easy to forget. https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/typical-mind-fallacy has been common knowledge for a long time, but it keeps surprising me just how many dimensions it applies to. That said, it doesn’t surprise me at all that anxiety experience is one of the highly-variable dimensions.
Note that it varies across time as well as between individuals. I used to be much more fearful of death (and physical pain, and failure at work, and many other things) than I am now. Part of it is intentional meditation, introspection, and therapy, but a lot of it seems to be just age. I’m simply more accepting of things than I was a few decades ago.