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#316 Stress Tolerance

Squiggly Careers

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Is Your Rubber Band at Rest?

"It's so bad for you in terms of if you kind of knowing that your mind and your body is all intertwined," she says. "If we are spending lots of time pretending, that just takes so much from us, it sort of snaps that rubber band." The book makes you re-evaluate parts of your life or how you live your life when you read the book,. They work quite hard this week. Some chapters I have to say were a tiny bit too heavy for me".

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So I think when you're thinking about your stress tolerance, almost kind of thinking about that thing of how
Speaker 2
would people describe you who work with you?
Speaker 1
And I was thinking back to some people I've worked with, you know, he just seemed perpetually stressed, who never seemed to take a break, who were available at all hours, who were like 24-7, he was like, it's so bad for you in terms of if you kind of knowing that your mind and your body is all intertwined and you can't separate yourself from your environment. If you want to stay well in the kind of fullest definition of wellness, that kind of idea of thinking just about like what matters most I think is really interesting. It definitely makes you re-evaluate parts of your life or how you live your life when you read the book. It's quite deep and meaningful as you can tell. They work quite hard this week. Yeah, it was quite a heavy read. Some chapters I have to say were a tiny bit too heavy for me. And then the third area, which actually I have come across before and I really like it as a, you'll have to tell me is it an analogy or a metaphor, but just how stressful it is to pretend. And I've come across this before, this idea of almost our personality is being a bit like a rubber band at rest. So when we are sort of just being ourselves, like me and you now chatting, I'm just, my rubber band is at rest. Let's say you add in a little bit of stress into the podcast. So maybe I'm interviewing someone I've not met before. My rubber band stretches a little bit, but it's still quite far from snapping. I probably feel a bit different to when I'm with you because I've known you for such a long time, but it's okay because I'll rubber bands can stretch in different directions. And then we return back to sort of the safety of who we are and just kind of being ourselves. But if we are spending lots of time pretending, that just takes so much from us, it sort of snaps that rubber band.

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