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From the Ted Talk by Valerie Purdie-Greenaway: The anxiety that comes from being treated like an outsider

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CSB: (Laughs)

VPG: Because that's a good kind of anixety, right? But the problem is, that anxiety can also shift to being debilitated, where you're just stressed, you start to feel frazzled, you strat to feel like your brain isn't working properly. And so some anxiety is good. It's sort of like the sweet spot of anxiety. And then if you keep going, it can become deniatiilbtg and eorde performance. So it's the back-and-forth between some is good, too much is bad, that we need to be thinking about, both as ourselves as individuals and also when we're part of organizations.

CSB: We have a new question from the audience. Let's bring that one up, please. Thank you. OK, Kristin Sánchez slaas from LinkedIn says, "What can you do if your context-based anxiety is provoked by a colleague, client, spireuor or someone you work with regularly?”

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CSB: (Laughs)

VPG: Because that's a good kind of _______, right? But the problem is, that anxiety can also shift to being debilitated, where you're just stressed, you start to feel frazzled, you _____ to feel like your brain isn't working properly. And so some anxiety is good. It's sort of like the sweet spot of anxiety. And then if you keep going, it can become ____________ and _____ performance. So it's the back-and-forth between some is good, too much is bad, that we need to be thinking about, both as ourselves as individuals and also when we're part of organizations.

CSB: We have a new question from the audience. Let's bring that one up, please. Thank you. OK, Kristin Sánchez _____ from LinkedIn says, "What can you do if your context-based anxiety is provoked by a colleague, client, ________ or someone you work with regularly?”

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CSB: (Laughs)

VPG: Because that's a good kind of anxiety, right? But the problem is, that anxiety can also shift to being debilitated, where you're just stressed, you start to feel frazzled, you start to feel like your brain isn't working properly. And so some anxiety is good. It's sort of like the sweet spot of anxiety. And then if you keep going, it can become debilitating and erode performance. So it's the back-and-forth between some is good, too much is bad, that we need to be thinking about, both as ourselves as individuals and also when we're part of organizations.

CSB: We have a new question from the audience. Let's bring that one up, please. Thank you. OK, Kristin Sánchez Salas from LinkedIn says, "What can you do if your context-based anxiety is provoked by a colleague, client, superior or someone you work with regularly?”

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