Micro Class: Anxietivity

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class.

This one's on anxiety. Anxiety. It's inspired by how successful people think by John Maxwell. Anxiety is a little word I just came up with which combines two words, anxiety plus creativity. John Maxwell makes the very, very important point that these two things go together. Alan Watts created this little word goes with. Some things are so connected that they.

Go with one another.

Anxiety goes with creativity, and creativity goes with anxiety. You can't have one without the other. So if you want to be creative, you. You need to learn how to embrace failure. Another little metaphor that he uses is, here's your tree, right? You want to climb up the tree and you want to go out on this limb. You want to go out on a limb to get the awesome fruit. Well, guess what? Limbs break. Sometimes failure occurs when you engage in creativity, and that produces anxiety. Anxiety. It goes together. So what we want to do is quit trying to get rid of the anxiety. It's not a sign that something's wrong with us. It's a sign that we're in the game. And as I've mentioned in different contexts, when I was Talking with Kelly McGonigal, she said, if you want to find how much meaning someone has in their life, find out how much stress they have. Because meaning goes with stress. Stress goes with meaning. Too often, we want to stamp a happy face sticker over our lives and just be awesomely happy all the time. I talked about this in the episode on Hedonic versus Eudaimonic Joy. Hedonic is just pure pleasure. It's this little happy face. Eudaimonic is flourishing. If you want to flourish, you have to be willing to invite a deep level of stress in your life because you are constantly going to be stretching your comfort zone, and that comes with anxiety every single time we say bring it on to our fears such that we can express the next highest version of ourselves. Comes with a risk, and that's a good thing. Anxiety.

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