Avoidance is a coping strategy for perceived potential failiure. This correlates strongly with perfectionism (a misnomer as it has nothing to do with striving f

Avoidance is a coping strategy for perceived potential failiure. This correlates strongly with perfectionism (a misnomer as it has nothing to do with striving for the perfect, but it is the perpetual feeling that your best will not meet your minimum standards). This is not to be conflated with a second point in the article. Once you pierce the veil on the context itself, be it academia or business or art or other things , it becomes extremely difficult for a person with moral integrity to allign themselves with the goals of that context. Those two things exacerbate. For intance, when working towards your phd and gradually discovering that your field awards phd's for extremely sloppy and even obviously wrong work, it becomes very hard to motivate yourself to put in the very substantial required effort, especially when you perceive your own potential result as also not breaking the mold or solving the malaise.