I told a mentor I was overwhelmed one time and he said the most annoying possible thing back, which was that he'd probably feel overwhelmed too if he kept telling himself he was. I wanted to argue, because I had a real list, real deadlines, a genuinely heavy 80 hour week. The thing that shut me up is that I keep people like him close precisely because they carry more than I do, not less, and not one of them walks around narrating himself as the man being crushed. I'd already tried the obvious fix of cutting the list in half, and the load came down while the sentence in my head stayed exactly the same. So this one is about treating overwhelm as a whole environment you can tune, the people around you, what you're consuming, how you see the work, instead of something you white knuckle your way through.
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