Molly Graham

And I do that today.

I'm so lucky.

And I remember this woman who worked in HR at the time saying,

And I feel so grateful because that was not true for a long time.

She said to me, you know, everybody has peaks and valleys at work.

Like there's no such thing as like everybody being like happy all the time.

And she was like, so you're happy some of the time and you're less happy some of the time.

But the goal is obviously like more peaks than valleys and also that the valleys aren't super long.

And she looked at me and she goes, your valleys are getting longer and closer together, you know, which I think about a lot because it's like, you know, that's measurable.

I had a coach when I was sort of struggling with a job who said, you know, at the end of the day, I want you to go through every single meeting that you've sat in and rate it on a scale of 1 to 10 and do it for a week.

Yeah, there's such a difference between being deeply uncomfortable and very stretched and being miserable.

And it was like eye-opening because I had tens and ones, you know, sitting right next to each other.

I burnt out at Facebook.

After a very intense five years, I really had physical symptoms of could not keep going.

And it mostly taught me a lot about the kind of things that do bring me energy.

And I remember this woman who worked in HR at the time saying,

But there's a lot of exercises you can do to kind of really ask yourself, like, what –

Are you uncomfortable?

She said to me, you know, everybody has peaks and valleys at work.

Are you miserable?