The following short exercise will introduce you to your own personal version of this temporary paralysis. • Close your eyes and visualize yourself in a situation where there’s something you need to do but you “just don’t have the energy.” The smaller, more commonplace and frequent the action, the better. Let yourself be taken over by the feeling th

Freeze happens when the brain assesses the threat and decides you’re too slow to run and too small to fight, and so your best hope for survival is to “play dead” until the threat goes away or someone comes along to help you. Freeze is your last-ditch stress response, reserved for threats that the brain perceives as life-threatening, when fight or f

The result: you experience heightened emotional reactions, such as anxiety or fear – and that makes you procrastinate from making a career decision for even longer. You feel worse, and so you do less. Most of us have experienced struggles of this kind. But the good news is that the cycle can be broken, and the fog of uncertainty eliminated.