FT: Why We Should Not Be So Anxious About Anxiety

FT’s Jemima Kelly explored the many facets of anxiety at work, and interviewed Morra. “If we don’t always frame it as a negative, we can experience what some neuroscientists call “good anxiety”. “Good anxiety is situational, time-limited and very motivating,” Morra Aarons-Mele, author of The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears Into Your Leadership Superpower, tells me. “It’s the anxiety that we need to do great things, and often the anxiety that we feel because we care, because we’re emotionally invested in the outcome, because we want to be excellent. Because we’re scared as hell, we go for it.”