Stress Usually Comes From Unclear Expectations

This episode is about a specific kind of stress — the kind that shows up even when nothing went wrong, even when the work got done.That stress usually isn't about workload. It's about three things that are easy to miss: unclear priorities, unclear scope, and unclear responsibility.In this episode:Why "working harder" doesn't fix the stress — and often makes it worseA real example of a scope gap: being asked for a detail and producing the wrong one — not from carelessness, but from a missing piece of contextWhy the gap between what's asked and what's expected isn't anyone's fault — and how it forms structurally in almost every officeWhat happens on a job site in the first few months, and why checking your own drawings against themselves isn't the same as checking them against the buildingThe one behavior that changes the cycle: asking for a reference, and asking whyHow to read stress as information instead of a condition to push through