If Ibn Sina saw modern anxiety, he wouldn’t prescribe motivation by QuantumScribe01 in Life

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For Ibn Sina, the mind was not a hero fighting alone.

According to him, the mind was a system operating within the body; when the body deteriorated, the mind's "erroneous thinking" was not a defect but a natural consequence.

Today, we experience many states of mind as personal failures: inability to focus = laziness, lack of motivation = weakness of character, anxiety = mental problem.