Shields Down (randsinrepose.com)

This article goes over the fact that “happy people don’t leave jobs they love”, or more specifically, what led them to be in a “shields down” situation.

Your shields drop the moment you let a glimpse of a potential different future into your mind. It seems like a unconsidered off-the-cuff thought sans consequence, but the thought opens you to possibilities that did not exist the moment before the thought existed.