[DIGEST] Gaslighting yourself...

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Hi friends,

I was talking to somebody last week who was very stressed about their very stressful job.

They kept trying to play down their stress. Eventually, I asked them why they were trying to gaslight themselves.

The truth was their job was very stressful. They had stepped into a new role at a new company and tasked them with building a whole department from scratch.

That’s a lot for anyone, but their specific job takes a lot of time to see results even in the best of times.

The stress existed and it was valid. Trying to hide it didn’t help anything but cause their eye to twitch uncontrollably.

Instead, we talked about what kind of metrics we could track to determine their success, but at the end of the day, we had to face a hard truth.

Sometimes time has to happen. Last year my company started a conference from scratch. The whole year was a stressful mess. We wanted to have success immediately, but we simply had to do the work.

We had to talk about it enough and prove our team was capabl…