Don't Waste the Bad Mood
Don't waste a bad mood. The Exponentials Individual Playbook makes a quiet, useful point about discomfort: the strongest performers do not just survive a hard emotion, they burn it. Anger, fear, the low hum of dread — these are not interruptions to the work. They are fuel that is sitting there, unlit. Most of us treat a bad feeling as a stop sign. We wait for it to pass before we begin. The problem is that it does not always pass, and the waiting becomes the habit. You can lose a whole year to the gap between "I feel off" and "now I can start." ...