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Scenario

When peer support groups become echo chambers of complaint

We're all senior developers who got promoted to team leads at the same time and we meet weekly to figure out management together, but these sessions have become complaint fests where we just reinforce each other's frustrations instead of actually solving problems. I think we're making each other worse at this job.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

What began as mutual support has devolved into collective reinforcement of negative patterns and learned helplessness.

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Aurelius
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Peri

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