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Distinguish preparation from rumination by ensuring
Distinguish preparation from rumination by ensuring worry-listing has a time limit, each worry converts to an action or is explicitly set aside, and execution focuses on doing rather than further imagining.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Open-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik) (unresolved commitments consuming working memory), Conscious Processing Is Metabolically Expensive (deliberation being metabolically costly), and Cognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems (System 1 vs System 2 characteristics). This principle provides structural boundaries to prevent productive anxiety work from collapsing into counterproductive rumination. It's prescriptive and actionable.