Most people have heard of fight or flight. Fewer people know that there are actually four responses, not two. And almost nobody is taught that one of them might be quietly running the way they work, relate to people, and make decisions every single day. Fight, flight,...
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from doing too much, but from thinking too much. You replay conversations that ended hours ago. You plan for scenarios that will probably never happen. You make a simple decision, then unmake it, then make...
You’re lying in bed exhausted, but your brain has already started tomorrow. You replay the conversation from earlier. You think about the email you forgot to send. You mentally organise your to-do list. Then you remember three more things. You tell yourself:...
What the flight pattern costs you when the exit always has a very good reason. I almost left the party at the two hour mark. I had a perfectly reasonable excuse. There was another party across town. People I already knew, people who wouldn’t need warming up, people...
