"Strivings" "Action plan" "Generative drive" "Creating" - all of these words are associated with Paul Conti, MD, a psychiatrist who has been on the Huberman podcast recently and discusses how we become an independent, autonomous self that is capable of activating our own goals, desires, pleasure, agency, sense of empowerment, etc. He also has some books on trauma which are informative. Check out and we can keep searching for the right words