Sidenote: I've just realized why the 4-quadrant graph has a "missing emotion" for the top left (low-confidence optimisim):
1. English does not have a specific word for that feeling of excitement about things accompanied by inability to stick with any particular thing if it doesn't give immediate positive feedback. "Hyperactivity" comes close the half of it that isn't wandering around on Wikipedia, but that describes a behavior, not an internal state.
2. The people who come to see psychiatrists and therapists about their own problems don't tend to complain about that emotion. Seeing a bunch of different exciting possibilities is fun! We tend to want help with resulting difficulty managing their schedules, sleep, relationships, priorities, and yknow... actually following through on finishing things rather than getting distracted...
There is a mental health book written as an allegory to an IT department called The Phoenix Project.
While it mostly seems to deal with anxiety, it is pretty applicable here. This is the same pattern of executive dysfunction that swaps Brent from task to task and leads the protaganist to say to the Chief Executive [Function] Officer "Commitments like the compliance work are made without any regard for what’s already on people’s plates, like Phoenix.”
This sounds a lot like chronic decision fatigue. Without basic human help, we are told to go get the American dream, but never ask for help when you get cancer and it wipes out all future generations wealth accumulation.
