Hey there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi, and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 402, office hours. Y'all are super familiar with this episode by now, but just in case you're new here, I'm going to take some of your questions that you shared on Instagram,

and I'm going to lazy genius them. Now, I will say that anytime we do these episodes,

the answers in the post are so good. Some of them I don't even answer here on the episode, because y'all do such a great job of answering each other's questions in the comments,

all with a tremendously compassionate lazy

genius lens. So after you listen to this, don't hesitate to scroll through past office hours

Instagram posts at The Lazy Genius, because they are quite excellent. Now, before I get into

today's batch of questions, I want to share an observation. And this is true in my own life as well.

So many of your challenges, so many of the things that are driving you crazy that you wrote in the

comments are related to other people's behavior, which also means they're tied to your

expectations of other people's behavior. Now, we are

absolutely allowed to have those expectations. Nobody listening needs to be a dormant that just

takes whatever everybody else is dishing out. And at the same time, I think it's helpful to note

that daily life can be stressful because people are stressful.

Living with people is hard.

Parenting is hard.

Marriage is hard.

Working for a boss is hard.

Friendship is hard.

Anything involving people is at some point going to be hard, especially if it's new,

if it's a new relationship or it's ongoing, which is kind of all of them.

And that leads to stress because we want things in life to be easy and we keep trying to make

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