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128: How Ops Execs Shrink 3am Catastrophizing Back to Size
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We’ve all had that late-night moment staring at the ceiling and your brain takes some random Tuesday hiccup—like an email that was phrased a little weirdly, or a meeting that dragged— and turns it into a big hairy thing that could make you look incompetent and trash your reputation.
It’s nuts how at 3 a.m., alone in your thoughts, tiny things snowball out of control and perspective disappears. Your mind spins up this whole movie where you’re somehow both the villain and the critic.
And by morning? You’re chugging three cups of coffee just to feel human again.
In this episode, you’ll get a way to shrink those mental monsters back down to human scale—so you can spot what’s really at stake, not just your brain’s horror script. Your brain needs the break, and so do you!