Suzannah Weiss

Most decisions contain an element of randomness. When we order a meal, there’s usually something else on the menu we would enjoy. When we sign a lease, there are many other places we could live.

Publishing three articles a day yet spending three days drafting the perfect date follow-up text. 

Now, you don’t have to work in a role that doesn’t suit you, for a boss who doesn’t appreciate you, or at a company that’s going under.

Looking like you’re playing dress-up when you wear business casual.

“Salary negotiation is for pushy people.”

You research places to go hiking because you’re no longer getting an automatic workout from walking over hills.

Asking people why they’ve rejected me.

Unfortunately, dating conventions are not skewed in favor of overthinkers, to say the least.

Books don’t have to be dry or academic to be educational.

I then realize he was not walking alone … and I see a terrified and confused Emma Watson.

When it seems like you’re out of options, just take one more step.

Perhaps the most insidious part is that we’re so convinced our guilt is justified, we feel guilty for not feeling guilty.