Learning on the job by jerry saltz12/24/2022 I was pumping gas yesterday and on the little TV screen at the gas pump was a perky news anchor giving me tips for handling anxiety when it wakes you up in the middle of the night, just while you’re pumping gas in a suburban gas station on the way to your kid’s soccer practice. And I’m speaking to you in a changed world, certainly a world where anxiety is part of our everyday vernacular. MORRA AARONS-MELE: Welcome to season three of The Anxious Achiever, the show where we look at stories from leaders who’ve dealt with anxiety, depression, or other mental health challenges, how they fell down, how they pick themselves up and how they hope workplaces can change in the future. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Harvard Business Review or its affiliates. HBR Presents is a network of podcasts curated by HBR editors, bringing you the best business ideas from the leading minds in management. In this conversation, he tells host Morra Aarons-Mele how his pursuit of work and paring life down to basics helped him manage trauma and anxiety and find a life he loves. In the essay, Saltz recounts a lifetime of using food to cope with trauma and anxiety – until art helped him find a new path forward. Early on in the pandemic, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz wrote a piece about his unusual eating habits that grabbed the attention of many with anxiety, depression, or just Covid-related sadness.
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