Principlev1
When creative anxiety arises, distinguish productive
When creative anxiety arises, distinguish productive discomfort (signal of real work) from genuine misalignment (signal the project is wrong) before deciding whether to persist or abandon.
Why This Is a Principle
Grounds in Automatic Fusion of Observation and Interpretation (observation fused with interpretation) and Emotions function as evaluative signals that provide (emotions as evaluative signals). The principle prescribes deliberate interpretation of emotional signals during creative work—derived decision framework.