Why do I feel rushed all the time when everyone else seems fine with deadlines?

You're probably carrying two different time-maps at once, and neither one knows the other exists. Some of us internalize time as a line we're always behind on—a cultural inheritance, maybe, or just how we were raised. Others move through days more cyclically, returning to the same tasks, seasons, rhythms without the panic. Laozi pointed at something useful here: the anxiety comes partly from *resisting* time's actual shape instead of moving with it. When you're pushing against a deadline as if it's a wall, you're already lost. The work expands to fill the space between you and panic. Try this: for one week, notice when you feel rushed versus when you don't. You'll probably find that some tasks feel like sprints (linear, finite) and others feel like returns (you've done them before, you'll do them again). The ones that feel rushed? They might actually be cyclical work you're forcing into a sprint frame. The feeling of being fine isn't about moving slower. It's about alignment—when your internal time-sense matches the actual shape of what you're doing. Start there.