Hello, emotional hangover!
A Short Survey
You’ve definitely had an emotional hangover.
Maybe it was the comedown after a monumental event (a trip! a graduation! a marathon!) and you felt kinda happy but also kinda depressed. Maybe you even had a headache and needed a bacon, egg, and cheese to make everything better.
Those are good emotional hangovers, the equivalent of a fun, drunken catch-up session.
But there’s another kind, too. To find these, you must pay close attention to how you feel before and after your interactions with other people.
Surely you’ve had a meeting lately that left you feeling negative or drained. Maybe your friend or colleague complained for two hours straight or you didn’t feel heard or you were being negged without knowing it. That kind of emotional hangover is the equivalent of too many Fireball shots after midnight.
And when those happen one too many times, perhaps a detox is in order.
Fully obsessed with the financial and life advice from "the sketch guy" Carl Richards in the New York Times. All columns here.
My Most Important Recommendation of the Year
This isn’t a productivity hack, though it might inspire you to work harder. It’s not yet another temporary tattoo or slick-looking website. My suggestion is to call your grandparents. That’s all.
(And if they’re not living, then go call or see someone whose relationship you value.)
(And if you can't think of anyone, go read this beautiful obit for David Letterman's mother, who died at age 95 this week. I love love loved watching her and playing the Thanksgiving pie guessing game on Late Night.)
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara