Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories. The novella's name quotes a proverb by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) in his work The Concept of Anxiety (1844). An abridged version of the novella was also published under the title "Better Versions of You" in the literary supplement to The New York Times.