Alex Partridge

being able to follow through on the tasks that they've asked me to do.

So advocating for yourself, asking for emails or written instructions, such a simple one, but I think it adds so much clarity into you actually being able to do the tasks that people are asking of you.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

If someone's explaining the board game instructions to me, or if I've pulled over and asked someone for traffic directions, which I just don't do anymore because I've learned that it just doesn't go in.

It's almost like the masked version of me slips back on.

I'm suddenly thinking about, am I making too much eye contact?

Which eye am I looking at?

How am I coming across?

What's my tone of voice?

And I drive away from that person.

It's now my turn to

to play the board game, my turn to roll the dice and I've no idea how to play it.

Or I have no idea where I'm driving because that person explained in the directions to me or that person explaining how to play the board game.

it's just evaporated because they couldn't be paying attention.

Ask for context.

So important.

So many people are just stuck in an absolutely catastrophic mode of anxiety when someone asks them for a quick chat

tomorrow morning, or their friend or their partner says, can we talk later, and doesn't give you any context.

And you're just left there thinking, oh my gosh, I'm going to get fired, my relationship's about to end, the world is going to finish, and that's it.

And you can't do anything other than essentially be stuck in waiting mode until you get some reassurance that your world isn't about to end.