Kierkegaard isn't telling you to embrace anxiety as a virtue—he's making a harder claim: that the very capacity to imagine futures, to choose freely, to care about what matters creates an inherent unease we can't negotiate away. Most advice tries to eliminate anxiety, as though it's a malfunction to be fixed, but he suggests it's the fee you pay for consciousness itself. When you stay in a dead-end job to avoid the vertigo of choosing something new, you're paying the price anyway—just in the currency of diminishment rather than growth.