The sort of slowing things down, both as a leader when you’re dealing with people who you work with, but as an individual who’s trying to work through your own issues, it’s really, really important to turn down the temperature, slow things down, take a beat. ADAM ALTER: Yeah, I mean, I think one thing that’s very valuable as a general psychological truth is that labeling hardship of any form when you’re going through it is helpful because it tells you that it’s not this strange, unusual, unique thing that no one’s ever gone through before, but rather it’s just the natural course of things.