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The Microstress Effect
- How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems—and What to Do About It
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
There is a force in our everyday lives that we aren't even aware of—and it's so powerful it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress.
It's the hidden epidemic of small moments of anxiety that infiltrate both our work and personal lives. Because each individual microstress is so small, it doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, the microstress just embeds in our minds, accumulating along with scores of other microstresses, day-to-day and week-to-week. The long-term effect is devastating: microstress invisibly weighs us down, damages our physical and emotional health, and contributes to a decline in our overall well-being.
The good news is that once you learn about microstress, you can fight back. Drawing on fresh research, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon will teach you how to recognize and manage the most common forms of microstress, and even remove some from your life. Compelling interviews with high achievers who've endured their share of microstress bring to life best practices that show you how to build resilience against microstress, and ultimately how to find purpose in your everyday life, using it as an antidote to your own microstress.
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- Leontes Henriquez
- 07-05-23
Interesting, but nothing revolutionary.
It's quite an interesting book and it has some intriguing insights, but I don't feel like the book lacks some applicable tips and tricks for a non-corporate setting. I like the recommendations for corporate settings and meetings, and I'll definitely try a few.
Eventually, the authors give recommendations for out-of-work life, but some are very obvious. This is not a bad thing particularly, and it could be very good to be reminded of those through this book; just don't expect anything very new or extremely revolutionary.
Some of the stronger things to take from the book are that work can be fun but don't forget about your own life, and that you should do the things that made you happy before. I found the following recommendation extremely useful: make sure people leave meetings on the same page: does everyone know and understand what they have to do or what they are responsible for?
The book properly defines microstress and points out that microstresses add up to something larger. The solutions aren't revolutionary, but it's a nice reminder that the smaller issues we tend to forget can give us more stress than we realise.
The narration is a bit bland and that made it harder to get through.
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