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Use existential anxiety as a signal that genuine choice is
Use existential anxiety as a signal that genuine choice is required rather than treating it as pathology to eliminate.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Emotions function as evaluative signals that provide (emotions provide information about what matters) and Human cognition contains multiple motivational drives that (multiple motivational drives can generate competing demands). The principle prescribes interpreting anxiety as signal rather than noise. It's the inverse of pathologizing—reframing the emotion as functional information.