The problem with ‘It could be worse’
Do you ever just have a bad day where everything you could imagine goes wrong? You get stuck in traffic. You spill coffee on your favorite shirt. You make a big mistake on a high-stakes project. Someone says something that revives one of your biggest insecurities. And when you finally get the chance to talk about it someone says ‘well, it could be worse.’
It. just. stops. you. in. your. tracks.