iAlign #85 - Overwhelmed Is A Sentence You Keep Repeating

The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell · Oct 25, 2026 · 13m · transcript

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I told a mentor I was overwhelmed one time and he said the most annoying possible thing back, which was that he'd probably feel overwhelmed too if he kept telling himself he was. I wanted to argue, because I had a real list, real deadlines, a genuinely heavy 80 hour week. The thing that shut me up is that I keep people like him close precisely because they carry more than I do, not less, and not one of them walks around narrating himself as the man being crushed. I'd already tried the obvious fix of cutting the list in half, and the load came down while the sentence in my…