September 2025
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208 pages
4h
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness, Updated and Expanded (featuring "How to Stop Worrying About What Other People Think of You" by Michael Gervais)
by Harvard Business Review, Michael Gervais, Angela L. Duckworth, Martin E.P. Seligman, Herminia Ibarra
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How to Stop Dwelling on Your Stress
by Jenny Taitz
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could learn to put our stressors aside from time to time, at least temporarily? I’m not talking about meditating or simply calming down, the latter of which isn’t even possible sometimes, given the world we live in now. I’m talking about changing our thinking and breaking the stress cycle, which is possible.
As a clinical psychologist who specializes in mindfulness-based behavioral therapies, I’ve found that many of my clients engage in what stress researchers call “perseverative cognition,” which is a fancy phrase for overthinking, ruminating, and worrying. And while it’s easy to imagine that this kind of thinking can better prepare us to handle stress, ...
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