My coworker said to me recently, “I don’t know how you keep up with yourself, and I mean that as a compliment.” I took this statement to mean that she thinks I have a lot of energy and get a lot of shit done. I can’t help but feel flattered, as I seek to increase my energy like a missile seeks heat.
However, in the same day I was also explaining to the same coworker how stressed I can get about looming customer deadlines, and she said, “Do you take anxiety medication for that?”
In the same day I got, “you get a lot done, but might have anxiety”. Either my coworker is too vocal/opinionated, or this is just a lesson that we can’t listen to praise or criticism, but stay in our lane and go after our vision.
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