Managing anxiety

From the Developer Success Lab comes an excellent resource: the Code Review Anxiety Workbook. While geared towards engineers, I think the counsel here is relevant to the anxiety of sharing work and getting feedback across many other fields, and likely to be useful to those both inside and outside the tech industry. Among the many good features here is a mini toolkit with brief tips for addressing and working through workplace anxiety. All the counsel here is great but I’ll call out the list of thinking traps in particular, and the way taking note of them can help you recognize that you’re only considering one angle on what’s happening. Questions like—why is this perspective the one I’ve adopted? How is it useful, and how might it be holding me back? What other perspectives might be possible here?—are great tools for dislodging narrow or stuck ways of seeing, and giving yourself some space to see what other futures are possible.