What Really Stresses You at Work and Why It's Not What You Think?
summary
The talk explains that modern chronic stress is often self-generated—our thoughts about future threats like losing a job or paying a mortgage trigger the same physiological stress responses as immediate physical danger. It describes the mismatch between stress’s short-term biological design and today’s ongoing anxieties, reviews health harms from chronic stress, and presents several simple cognitive-behavioral techniques to reduce stress in work and personal life.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:36Stress statistics
- 4:04Harmful effects of stress
- 8:17Emotions as radar
- 14:43IT stress and effects
- 20:47Fight or flight at work
- 27:08Control over stressors
- 33:11Situation interpretation
- 37:24Catastrophic thinking
- 41:07Automatic thoughts impact
- 45:00Changing thoughts with exercises
- 47:29Reality-checking fears
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