People don't care how you look outside your ecosystem (and that's a good thing)

I couldn't stop talking about it when I got back home.

I was telling my wife how nice the people I met were. How there was ZERO talk about work, markets, stocks, bonds, mergers, acquisitions or anything that has to do with my "day job".

It was refreshing.

It was 2010, and I had just come back from an open water sea swim followed by a breakfast with a group from a triathlon team I had just joined (as a complete beginner).

These people came from a very diverse background: women and men of all ages, nationalities, sizes, capabilities, careers.

No one, NOT ONE, asked me what my "job" was.

No one, NOT ONE asked me about "work stress".

We all left that side of our lives behind to spend time together as a community sharing a passion for sport, fitness and being outdoors.

This side of sport (the community) has kept me in love with it till today.

In fact, this is one of the MOST POWERFUL ways for you let go of your "ecosystem-specific anxiety".

When we are anxious, it tends to be (typically) "inside a specific ecosystem" which we live in, such as:

- Our "work" ecosystem

- Our "family" ecosystem

- Our "friends" ecosystem

- etc.

What we often don't realize is that: people in "one ecosystem" don't care about your life in "another ecosystem".

My friends in the "triathlon ecosystem" don't care about my "work ecosystem".

And this is a powerful tool YOU can use to "get a break" from an ecosystem which is causing you anxiety and pressure.

Create "multiple ecosystems": create ones which you can "move to" whenever you need a break.

What brings people together into a ecosystem is a common passion. So examples of such ecosystems include:

- Book reading ecosystems

- Sport ecosystems (e.g. Crossfit is one of the biggest "communities" today)

- Close friends ecosystem

- Art lovers

- Car lovers

- Motorcycle lovers

- Travel & adventure lovers

- Hiking and camping lovers

- etc.

There are dozens of "passions" which brings people together into "small communities".

This can be your temporary break from an ecosystem which is causing you stress.

And in today's world of social media: it's extremely easy to find & join such communities (Facebook groups is an extremely common tool for example).

So create a group or join one, join an ecosystem which meets your passion, because people in that ecosystem don't care "how good you are at your daily job"!