Hannah Rose explores how the stories we tell about ourselves shape our behavior. She traces her own pattern of overproductive anxiety, keeping zero unread emails, and how that shifted when she became a therapist and started working for herself.
But I want you to keep in mind that different things work for different people. So I am naturally someone who has had the pattern of, see, I don't wanna say I'm someone who, 'cause that's so limiting. I am someone who has had a pattern of, that creates space for change, right? Narrative therapy. I am someone who has had a pattern of wanting all my notifications to be read and replied and answered, right? It's like we can fall on two sides of that spectrum of like, I have 1,000 unread emails, I have no unread emails. Currently I have no unread emails. So that's my own like overproductive pattern. Hyperproductive anxiety, right? And sometimes it's a detriment. What I see really commonly, especially going into being a therapist or working for yourself, is a level of underproductive avoidance that can happen.
