
Have you ever been the best at something?At school, in sports, at work. Anything. Now, have you ever found yourself in a situation where you might not be?When something goes well, we feel pleased. When it doesn’t turn out as we’d hoped, we might feel disappointed or frustrated. But what those outcomes mean to

The third option — between reckless adoption and defensive dismissal — and what it actually looks like in practice. In the previous piece I wrote about the fox and the grapes — about the professional habit of dismissing what we have not properly tried, and how that dismissal is often anxiety wearing the clothes