Neha Sharma ·
A note that belongs in a careers space: capability is not the usual reason people stall. Exhaustion is
If every task feels twice as heavy as it did last year, that is information about your workload or your environment, not evidence about your ability. Deal with it as a real constraint rather than trying to out-work it.
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