Fast Company Daily 5 ways to use your stress for success
Sep 8, 2025
Explore the surprising benefits of workplace stress as a catalyst for success. Delve into the shortcomings of conventional wellness interventions, highlighting their failure to combat rising stress levels. Learn five practical strategies to harness stress and transform it into a powerful tool for personal and professional growth. Embrace stress as a unique driver, rather than an obstacle, on your journey to achievement.
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Reframe Stress As Excitement
- Your stress physiology (racing heart, alertness) is identical to excitement and can boost performance when reinterpreted positively.
- Reframing stress as a feature instead of a flaw upgrades your operating system and improves outcomes.
Ask If It's A Real Threat
- Pause and ask, will this kill me in the next three minutes to distinguish real threats from exaggerated ones.
- If it won't, label it a "paper tiger" and redirect that energy into productive action.
Turn Anxiety Into Directed Anger
- Convert anxiety into targeted anger aimed at problems, not people, to increase effort and creativity.
- Channel frustration toward fixing systems rather than blaming colleagues to mobilize action.