¶ Fear and Longing
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Assuming Einstein’s postulate of fear and longing as the prime motivators to be correct, let us analyze the implication further, and utilize fear and longing as yardsticks in a general tracery of the history of creative design and the latter’s effect on economics and social movements.
While neither fear nor longing is experienced in pure form, nevertheless one or the other is always dominant for every specific moment. A person may be at one instant 90 percent dominated by longing and 10 percent by fear, at the next vice versa, and tomorrow 50-50. When, however, the person’s life span has terminated, he may be analyzed sumtotally as having demonstrated for instance a 60 percent fear motivation and 40 percent longing. So, in terms of indicated sumtotal of a personality, one may say that a person is dominantly to date a fear or a longing type. The genius and the talented person are specific members of the longing dominated group, although manifesting greatly diversified performance characteristics.
