Bucket 1: difficult product learning, new way of working, colleagues in the team with totally different personality, change of role, or last-minute additions in the assignment.
Bucket 2: someone screwing up what you had saved yesterday, manually doing a job because someone forgot to automate it, miscommunication that led to wrong email response, a fuck-up micromanaging and rude boss, or working with a colleague with terrible mood swings.
Bucket 1 leads to positive stress; this stress is a part of your job and it actually makes you smarter, so it’s perfectly fine to get stressed-out by that. Bucket 2 leads to the real stress, this is going to make you feel terrible and that day can be a contender for one of the worst days of the month. So, now you know what kind of stress you are in.
Positive stress and the two buckets
