Most early‑career professionals carry a quiet internal standard: the right path. The pressure of the "right path" shapes decisions, fuels anxiety, and borrows its authority from a world that no longer exists. Through a personal story of a Saturday basketball game and a grounded look at where that pressure comes from, this column offers an alternative – not a different map, but a more honest relationship with the one you are walking. For anyone ready to unhook from borrowed ex

At some point during the first years of professional life, most people start answering the question "who are you?" by offering the answer to a different question entirely: "what do you do?"