How often have you been stressed about a project at work, and then felt annoyed at yourself that you are stressed, because you "should" be able to handle stress better by now? Or made a mistake and blamed yourself because you "should" have been able to avoid it since you'd worked on something similar in the past? Both of these are versions of the premise that "you should know better," which is the idea that, if you have done something before, you need to be perpetually improving at it or you are doing it wrong.
That premise that we need to be constantly getting better and are not allowed to mess up, experience stress, or just generally take a path that is anything but linear, is the source of SO much suffering. When you are stressed, the experience is not great, but it is usually 10x worse if you layer judgement on top of it in the form of "I should be able to cope with stress better" or "it seems like I'm not making progress" or any of the other hundreds of variations of "I should know better by now."
So, this week we talk about how work can be significantly more fun if we question that idea that we "should know better" instead of taking it as a given.
To get in touch with Maria:
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