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Fear takes every kind of pleasure. So the fear of not looking smart, not feeling smart, might be already enough to dislike certain kind of things. But there's
by dan00 11y ago
Fear takes every kind of pleasure. So the fear of not looking smart, not feeling smart, might be already enough to dislike certain kind of things.
But there's certainly also a difference in people without fear - like you said - how much they get a "kick" from learning new things.
- vlehto 11y agoI'd claim the fear can be just irrational. Maybe learned behavior, you we afraid of doing homework once. The next time you remember that experience and it becomes grueling experience. After some time you have learned to fear, but there is not really anything you are afraid off. Or there is, but you don't know it. Humans are really good at inventing explanations for their feelings and believing those explanations. I think just acknowledging that it's fear is good first step.