Good stuff, as usual, Maarten!

Two questions comes to mind:

First: How can we tell whether procrastination is a sign of fear or not-readiness vs a signal that something isn’t truly important to us? In my experience this can be a surprisingly murky distinction.

Second: It seems like at times a personal mission statement could be useful, so how do we know when to take that more reflective approach vs the experimental one?

Both these topics are really applicable to my work with people in therapy, so I’m trying to think through whether or not there would be somewhat objective ways to know when to recommend or try one vs the other.

The second one in particular gets at a really tough dilemma: How does change happen? Specifically, when should you get reflective about things and turn inward looking for insights that may spark behavior change, and when should you get behavioral about things and turn outward to just experiment and see what works which may in teen lead to insights?

Both have there place, of course, but it’s a constant challenge to try and work out which will be the more useful strategy given a certain person in a certain context with limited time and resources.

Not looking for direct answers, of course, just thinking out loud 😁