Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You

There’s this popular narrative that young people, especially millennials, love to blame their parents for every negative aspect of their existence. She’s terrified of conflict—scared a disagreement will ruin the whole relationship because when she was growing up, conflict was such a big deal. She has a solid relationship with this colleague and doesn’t think he’s interrupting her and sidelining her ideas knowingly or maliciously, but she’s still nervous about bringing it up. “What if he just shuts down? He thought if he could avoid all distractions, he could finally reach enlightenment.