Most of our work at present is so ambiguous, iterative, confusing, uncertain and risky that we better learn to navigate it well or it burns us out.
Work surprises us and this is part of what keeps us alive. (Otherwise we are just completing set after set of transactions, more and more efficiently.)
But with these surprises comes a growing level of anxiety. In ourselves, in our teams, in the organisation. It eats away at us. There is a basic practice that helps in these environments but still seems difficult to act on in the workplace.
Talk to someone. Someone you can trust not to take advantage of you.
Words like vulnerability and connection have become so bland that they may have lost their original power. But when we can be ourselves in front of others, and they accept us, then our anxiety is reduced. When someone sees us and understands, then we can be more at ease.
This is almost inevitable. Give it a go.
Khurshed Dehnugara
