What Are Your Default Mental Traps?

This post is part of a series of “atomic essays” published on Twitter for the #Ship30for30 program. You can check out more of the conversation on Twitter, and in the previous post from this series about creating better weekly plans.

“Are you being lazy or are you being cheap?”

Angela’s piercing blue-green eyes and her question arrested me mid-bite of my breadstick.

I had stopped, not because the question hurt my feelings, but because it was an incredibly helpful pattern interrupt, asked in a way that I could hear it.