Granted, parity in this sense doesn't track "reality", but it might be worth deconstructing your dismissal a bit. There are people that have to deal with irrational fear. Recognizing that you have direct control over that experience can be liberating and life-affirming, to use your language.
Personally, where I find the juicy bits are in the questions:
- How do you discern reasonable vs. unreasonable fear?
- What external factors are controllable and which are not?
- The feedback between external and internal factors is probably a mess of non-linearities. Where are the attractors? What does the landscape look like? How can you find the really nice/cool/fun/interesting attractors?
Etc. Of course, the above can be generalized beyond fear (via some appropriate natural transformation---hi Haskellers).
Granted, parity in this sense doesn't track "reality", but it might be worth deconstructing your dismissal a bit. There are people that have to deal with irrational fear. Recognizing that you have direct control over that experience can be liberating and life-affirming, to use your language.
Personally, where I find the juicy bits are in the questions:
- How do you discern reasonable vs. unreasonable fear?
- What external factors are controllable and which are not?
- The feedback between external and internal factors is probably a mess of non-linearities. Where are the attractors? What does the landscape look like? How can you find the really nice/cool/fun/interesting attractors?
Etc. Of course, the above can be generalized beyond fear (via some appropriate natural transformation---hi Haskellers).