You know the feeling? When the numbers are fine, the team delivers, and from the outside, nothing seems broken. But you are running the situation, running the meeting about the situation, and, invisibly, managing how the room is reacting to the meeting. You hold what other people don’t see you holding — the translation, the absorption, and a performed confidence that the moment doesn’t always warrant.

It’s called being good at the job, and it has a cost you can feel but cannot name.

You aren’t alone.

— Gautam