Stress Less. Achieve More.

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From Survival Under Stress to Success Under Stress

I magine a person who responds to daily challenges and minor emergencies by thinking only of short-term solutions instead of looking at what’s best for the future. Unable to see new approaches or new opportunities, he looks only to the past for solutions. He focuses on the problem, not the whole picture. He overreacts; he stresses over how a situation could possibly go wrong, keeping himself anxious and on guard.

If you had such an employee, you wouldn’t look to him or her for innovations, would you? And in fact, that employee might not last long with you. Yet, what I just described is a typical stress-system response, left unchecked. Without knowing it, our response to daily stressful events ...