
Disrupting Yourself and Your Career
The Anxious Achiever
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How Anxiety Helped Me Work Harder
Anxiety made me hyper vigilant. And so I think it manifested by me going into investment banking, which is a great profession for someone with high anxiety because you work all the time. So my reflection at this point has been just, do we work to manage our anxiety or are we actually working to manage Anxiety? Does the distinction matter? For me, it does because if I have a day like tomorrow, tomorrow is Saturday, and it's a fairly free form day, there's not things that I have to get done for Monday. And I could take a break. But if I'm trying to manage my anxiety, will I end up working, not necessarily because I want to work or
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