Level Of Stress & Anxiety:

Jordan Peterson:

"we took a long time to figure out how you might calibrate how upset you should get when something negative happens and what we realized fundamentally was that it was proportional to the place in the hierarchy where your goals were disrupted. So if you just have to make a minor course correction by walking around the amount of upset you should get is basically proportional to the amount of extra energy that you have to expend correcting your course and so a minor obstacle is just gonna produce a little bit of arousal and stress whereas if you go out to try to start your car and it won't start then that's going to make you more upset experience more negative emotion and if if you read that the business you work at has just collapsed because the CEO was a crook and now it's bankrupt that's going to cause you even more distress and the distress roughly speaking should be proportional to the level of the hierarchy in your expectancy network or desire network more accurately that's disrupted by the occurrence."

"what neuroticism is, it's a role of the genetic dice which says that your body should output X amount of physiological energy or preparation for energy in response to X amount of disruption."