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the speed of someone solving the wrong problem with everything they've got
means Marked by wild, hurried, often disorganized urgency, the way you move when panic outpaces thought.
from From Old French 'frenetique' and ultimately Greek 'phrenitis,' an inflammation of the brain (from 'phren,' mind or diaphragm — the ancients located thought in the gut). 'Frantic' and 'frenetic' are twin descendants of that same medical word for delirium, which is why both still carry the heat of a mind running too hot.
- latin root
- shares ancestry with frenzy and phrenetic, meaning inflamed brain
- adrenaline
- floods muscles while shutting down rational thought
- contagious
- panic spreads through crowds faster than any actual danger
- deceptive
- motion feels productive but often accomplishes nothing
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