When the mere struggle for survival does not provide enough of [challenge …] [...] we invent it for ourselves: through games and sports, through travel, through storytelling, through math and science. We run races, climb mountains, compose ballads, peer through telescopes.
I think a dark side is noteworthy here too: How once all is ‘good’ in our life, we are stunningly good at finding new as-if-life-threatening problems even if from the outside we’d have judged these purest luxury issues barely worth thinking about.
Maybe it depends a bit on the personal character—some manage to create somewhat more positively looking artificial challenges of the type you mention, and maybe others hurt themselves more by ‘identifying’ the new problems & crises.
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I think a dark side is noteworthy here too: How once all is ‘good’ in our life, we are stunningly good at finding new as-if-life-threatening problems even if from the outside we’d have judged these purest luxury issues barely worth thinking about.
Maybe it depends a bit on the personal character—some manage to create somewhat more positively looking artificial challenges of the type you mention, and maybe others hurt themselves more by ‘identifying’ the new problems & crises.