I started at a new employer, and my colleague’s swearing could put my teeth on end.

We were 8 people in an open office. Cursing would just get in my head whenever their cursing syncopated with my new-guy-at-new-job stressing. My System 2 brain knew they were not cursing at me, but my System 1 brain would flinch at each curse. I asked them to please reduce the cursing.

Later I knew I had come out of the funk when I let fly a few choice words of my own, and that colleague would rib me for it.