{"id":11879,"date":"2021-08-04T19:33:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T02:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=11879"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:33:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T02:33:30","slug":"one-possible-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=11879","title":{"rendered":"One possible scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone assigns me a service request which I don\u2019t immediately understand. I get a little anxious, start to look for information. Then someone asks me a question which I don\u2019t know the answer to. It\u2019s not even 7am and I feel like an idiot already. The internal voices start a running commentary. It\u2019s heavy on words like \u201cidiot\u201d and \u201cincompetent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My logical brain knows very well that I am neither. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My inner voice disagrees. Strongly. My inner voice is not nice to me at all. So what did I do about it? I cried. A little. Then I sighed and said \u201cgive yourself a fucking break. You know how to troubleshoot. Start asking questions. Break the problem into components.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I reminded myself of something. If someone asks me questions, it\u2019s because they think I know things. You don\u2019t go to the person you think is an idiot for advice about an issue. You ask someone you think might know the answer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My inner voice should really know better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone assigns me a service request which I don\u2019t immediately understand. I get a little anxious, start to look for information. Then someone asks me a question which I don\u2019t know the answer to. It\u2019s not even 7am and I feel like an idiot already. The internal voices start a running commentary. It\u2019s heavy on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=11879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One possible scenario<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-35B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10438,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10438","url_meta":{"origin":11879,"position":0},"title":"The sound of silence","author":"Michelle","date":"November 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"If you need to assume anything assume that all silences from now on have grief in them. 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