Episodes on Mindset
Half of getting older happens between your ears. That half is still up for grabs.
Half of getting older happens between your ears. That half is still up for grabs.
If you've ever dressed, spoken or shown up a certain way just to keep the job, the respect or the invitation coming, you know that feeling from the inside.
If you keep your head down on the train, swallow a compliment you wanted to give, or decide you're just not that kind of person, this one's for you.
If you've spent years being the one everyone leans on, with no one you lean on in return, you know this feeling.
If you have built a story about why you're still here, you know exactly how it feels when that story stops holding.
If you have ever gone short with the people trying to help you the moment things got too heavy, you already know this feeling.
The better you get at your job, the more certain you become that you have fooled everyone.
You are more tired than you used to be, more irritated at the people around you and at the world in general, and still waiting for the part where life gets easier.
You have never tested your balance, your flexibility or your reaction time, so you do not know which one is already the weak link.
You ticked every box you were told to tick, and somewhere along the way you started carrying something you have never said out loud.
—Michael Bungay Stanier
—Aldo Grech
—Stephen Keys
—Naomi Cao
—Ben Larke
If you've spent years putting everyone else's needs first and telling yourself that's just who you are, you know this one.