[line]“If you’re a balanced person you take a reality check or ask other people and they say ‘yes you did fine.’ But the alcoholic will take the tiny thing they can improve on and go into a tailspin of ‘I’m not good enough.’” “If you’re a balanced person you take a reality check or ask other people and they say ‘yes you did fine.’ But the alcoholic will take the tiny thing they can improve on and go into a tailspin of ‘I’m not good enough.’”Stephanie Chivers is an addiction specialist who co-runs ichange21, a company that works with individuals and teams to change habits, often specifically around drinking.
She says that alcohol affects “everyone and anyone—people from all walks of life and in any job.” The big problem, she reckons, is when alcohol is “ingrained in working culture, and people think that if they don’t drink they won’t get on. If your manager is a drinker and everyone goes to the pub, then the person who has the best relationship with your manager is the person who drinks with them.”
That means lots of events and occasions in which booze shares the starring role with great design. “In the design industry as a whole, a lot of things take the loose guise of networking but are systematically boozy,” says Tom Banks, editor of industry publication Design Week. “The majority of people seem to drink,” he says, noting get-togethers like the “notworking” UK event series Glug, as well as launch parties and awards events.
[line]“If you’re a balanced person you take a reality check or ask other people and they say ‘yes you did fine.’ But the alcoholic will take the tiny thing they can improve on and go into a tailspin of ‘I’m not good enough.’” “If you’re a balanced person you take a reality check or ask other people and they say ‘yes you did fine.’ But the alcoholic will take the tiny thing they can improve on and go into a tailspin of ‘I’m not good enough.’”Stephanie Chivers is an addiction specialist who co-runs ichange21, a company that works with individuals and teams to change habits, often specifically around drinking.