Motivated and directionless: a precise description, not a complaint

Perpetual drive with no destination is a specific profile, and it requires a different strategy than most advice assumes.

There's a specific experience I've had for about 24 years that I've spent a lot of time trying to diagnose. I used to call it fear of commitment, then perfectionism, then broken, then accepting... and on and on and on... None of those were quite right.