Hey Stress, Let's Talk

Friction has been on my mind lately. Not things rupturing, just rubbing the wrong way. The conversation with a coworker that leaves you feeling off. The tension with your partner. The ache that shows up after your morning run. The warning light on your dashboard.

I've been thinking about the word judgment. We've become quick to say, "Don't judge." And I understand why. We don't know everyone's story, and we should question our assumptions, challenge our biases, and treat people with compassion. But that's different from giving up our judgment.

We have a societal bias that more data is better. From dashboards to nanny cams to watches that tell us 48 things about our health, we have started to believe that if we can know something, we must know it. And if we are not tracking it, attending to it, and acting on it, we are failing. This is false.