Fear and confusion

Well, many people are aware that fear is deified in Greek and Roman mythology

as Phobos, the brother of Deimos, and son of Mars. I am not sure about

confusion, but to me confusion and fear seem to be related someway, like

cousins or something, that spend a lot of time together.

Although terror which is translated as Deimos, tends be be

strongly connected to confusion as well.

Fear of course is a pretty valuable commodity when it comes to dealing

with threat, in particular immediate threats, and now we have this issue

which is, what the heck is a threat exactly. Fear is mostly effective in

this pretty narrow band, where confusion is low, and there is a lot

of clarity about -- Mr. X, (or whatever you want to call it), which

is the threat.

Now, to get to the point here, what I am basically trying to

demonstrate is the lack of benefit of fear being a long

term or effective motivational strategy because simply of the

issue of fear being so closely connected to confusion.

Sometimes, that confusion is connected to lack of " input "

clarity, meaning that data about the environment is not

the best or it could be related to lack of clarity related to

what exactly we mean or think about, in relation to threat.

What it means is, that fear as motivation leads potentially

to actions, which may not be as effective as we might

like them to be.

What kinds of motivations are most effective in terms

of solving issues that are difficult or complex in the long

term?

Not sure, but, if I come up will some good answers,

I will definitely get back to you about those . But I

have to admit that this notion of doing better, and

being better is pretty good, as noted in

the Lankavatara .

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