On a personal level, this may be a little self centered, but I use cases like this to put my own problems in perspective. Recently I had to troubleshoot lots o

On a personal level, this may be a little self centered, but I use cases like this to put my own problems in perspective. Recently I had to troubleshoot lots of IT issues during a winter storm. It was a bad outage for the organization during high load important scenario. I distinctly remember thinking during the thick of it “this is bad, but imagine being the poor engineers in TX responsible for the power grid.” This helped me not panic and focus on the problem at hand. I feel like this ability to step back and not take a problem more seriously than necessary can be an asset. In this case, it’s pretty bad, but “at least people aren’t in immediate danger of their life.” Think it to yourself, but probably not best to share with others until after the problem is mitigated ;)