Fear of losing status, writ large, is an obvious one: fear of not being able to keep up with one’s friends and relations, of not being good enough, etc.
Fear of gaining undeserved status / impostor syndrome? Which, I would guess, includes what high-agency people usually refer to when they talk about “fear of trying anything one isn’t used to doing”?
Fear of not knowing where one should go? That one I’m less sure about, since I mean mostly things like “not being sure one has made the right choices in life/midlife crisis/young folks who don’t know yet where they are in the pecking order”. Maybe it’s a vague umbrella over stuff that should be in the other two categories, maybe it’s not as clearly “social” and more “fear of not living the life one imagined for oneself”?
Hmm., let’s see:
Fear of losing status, writ large, is an obvious one: fear of not being able to keep up with one’s friends and relations, of not being good enough, etc.
Fear of gaining undeserved status / impostor syndrome? Which, I would guess, includes what high-agency people usually refer to when they talk about “fear of trying anything one isn’t used to doing”?
Fear of not knowing where one should go? That one I’m less sure about, since I mean mostly things like “not being sure one has made the right choices in life/midlife crisis/young folks who don’t know yet where they are in the pecking order”. Maybe it’s a vague umbrella over stuff that should be in the other two categories, maybe it’s not as clearly “social” and more “fear of not living the life one imagined for oneself”?