How to Be Awesome at Your Job 1092: Transforming Stress into Your Superpower with Dr. Rebecca Heiss
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Sep 11, 2025 Dr. Rebecca Heiss is a stress expert known for her transformative research, aimed at turning fears into fuel. She discusses how stress can fuel meaning and purpose, sharing her T-minus 3 Technique for harnessing stress effectively. Listeners will learn about the surprising benefits of a positive stress mindset, strategies for personal empowerment, and how reframing stress can lead to personal growth. Notably, she shares insights from a milkshake study that highlights the intriguing connection between perception and physiological responses.
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Belief, Not Stress, Predicts Mortality
- Believing stress is harmful predicts higher mortality, not stress itself.
- People with high stress who view it as helpful had the lowest mortality in a 30,000-person study.
Many Interventions Backfire, Service Helps
- Most workplace interventions to reduce stress do not lower stress and often increase it.
- Service to others was the one intervention linked to reduced stress via oxytocin and connection.
Apply The Three-Step Stress Formula
- Use the Fearless Stress Formula: Tiger, Transfer, Trajectory to harness stress energy.
- Recognize non-life-threatening stress, convert it to usable energy, then point it toward action.
