He seems preoccupied with an ongoing news story about a missing teenage girl, and we suspect some personal trauma may be causing this preoccupation.
This overinvestment causes a preoccupation with results (especially failure!), expectations, and pressure that lead to doubt, worry, anxiety, and fear.
He regretted "the waste of time the very compositions you admire may have caused and their preoccupation of the mind which belonged to more sacred or more binding duties... the disquiet and the thoughts of vainglory they have given rise to".
It is also noted that the activity of choice Darwin ascribed to females is caused by a female preoccupation with beauty and as such often has negative consequences for both male survival and the species itself.
Both, in their ways, wanted to convey how people subjectively experience the world, a preoccupation that caused them to radically innovate -- and scandalize -- the art and literary worlds.
This inequality can cause inferiority complex, preoccupation, and denial of diagnosis, which correlates with the onset of depression.
They provide motivation to work well, but they also cause stress and preoccupation with the reward that can actually hurt performance.
"This possibility is obviously a cause of preoccupation for Israel.
In Panic Away, Barry McDonagh writes, "The sensation is caused by delayed perception and mental preoccupation.
Although successful at this for the most part, his preoccupation with marketing strategies and patent protection caused him to miss a great opportunity in firearms development when he dismissed an idea from one of his gunsmiths, Rollin White.
