Why You Should Embrace Anxiety According to Søren Kierkegaard
2 min readJul 9, 2022
In 1844, philosopher Soren Kierkegaard published one of the earliest books on anxiety. In it, he referred to anxiety as being nothing more than what he called the ‘dizziness of freedom’, or in other words, a sense of being overwhelmed by all of the infinite choices that you have in life.