Mental Health Depends on Knowing Which Problems to Reject

What if mental health, motivation, and even joy depended not on solving problems, but on knowing which ones not to accept?

I think about the tweet below a lot. Particularly the part about “the existing nasty pressure on young people to conform by being ‘remarkable’.”

How many of your “problems” emerged from your creative engagement with the world? Problems are soluble, but they should be your problems. You have the right to reject problems imposed on you.

See also: A Genuinely Felt Problem is the Most Powerful Generator of Creative Problem-Solving that Exists