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Psychology says the thing most people lie about on Monday morning - "how was your weekend" - falls into one of these 6 categories, and the specific lie a person tells reveals which part of their life they're performing and which part they're protecting - Silicon Canals

People tell patterned lies about their weekends to colleagues, revealing deeper anxieties about how they're perceived at work.

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I'm 66 and I finally stopped trying to impress people who were never actually paying attention - and the silence taught me that most of what I thought mattered was just performance anxiety dressed up as ambition - Silicon Canals

I spent forty years trying to impress people who probably forgot my name five minutes after I left their house. That's a hell of a thing to admit at sixty-six. But there it is. I've been retired for a couple years now, and the quiet has taught me things I was too busy to learn when I was running around with a van full of wire and a head full of worry.

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Psychology says the thing most people lie about on Monday morning - "how was your weekend" - falls into one of these 6 categories, and the specific lie a person tells reveals which part of their life they're performing and which part they're protecting - Silicon Canals

I'm 66 and I finally stopped trying to impress people who were never actually paying attention - and the silence taught me that most of what I thought mattered was just performance anxiety dressed up as ambition - Silicon Canals

#professional-anxiety
#professional-anxiety