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Why doing nothing triggers anxiety about wasting time

I feel anxious when I'm not being productive like I'm wasting my life somehow

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The equation of human value with output creates existential anxiety around unproductive moments.

Ideas that help explain it
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