Although reducing stress can be beneficial, it’s rarely the most productive way to handle life’s unavoidable challenges—careers, finances, relationships, and health concerns.
If you're in a high-growth companies and in high-performance roles, the sources of stress will be all around you. They will be relentless.
To fight this, I encourage building stress resilience.
This is our ability to process stressors effectively—responding rather than reacting, remaining composed under pressure, and recovering quickly from setbacks.
Stress resilience can be developed but it takes intentional effort a for long period of time.
However, it’s important to acknowledge that sometimes the burden is simply too heavy.
At those times, the best solution might be to remove yourself from the source of stress altogether.
Will it feel impossible? Most probably.
But for longevity and a meaningful life, it might be a risk worth taking.
So ultimately, we have two main levers to manage stress:
- Cut out the source of stress
- Build resilience and turn stress into power