Headspace Studios.

Hey friends, it's Frozy here.

Welcome back to Radio Headspace.

Let me ask you something. In your entire life experience, when someone

has told you to calm down, has it worked? And on the other side of that, when you've told someone

else to calm down, has that worked? Exactly. So why do we keep saying it? The other day I was in the

middle of explaining to Tori how I do not. I repeat, do not like group projects. I never have.

It's not that I don't like people. I like people. I love people.

I just don't like being on someone else's timeline.

I'm very particular.

Some might say controlling.

I prefer specific, methodical, precise.

I work for myself, essentially.

I write when I want to write. I do my homework when I decide to. I pay my bills on time because I don't like the stress of not doing so. I am self-motivated, highly structured, and very comfortable being accountable only to myself.

So when I have to work on a group project, something inside of me reacts immediately.

My palms get sweaty, my chest tightened.

I started thinking about deadlines, about uneven effort, about having to depend on someone else's pace.

I feel this urge to take over because I don't trust that the timeline will align with mine.

Look, I know there's deeper stuff there.

We can unpack that another time.

That's not today's episode.

What happened was this.

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