Mo Gawdat

I hope that our listeners will all be in the one out of 10 that don't get that, but likely you're going to be one of the nine, you know.

I hope that our listeners will all be in the one out of 10 that don't get that, but likely you're going to be one of the nine, you know.

Yeah, a bad breakup, a loss of a loved one, an accident, whatever. The good news is, which this is from 9-11 statistics, that 93% of all who get to PTSD, so that's the highest level of stress, recover in three months. 96.7% recover in six months. And all of them, or most of them, 98% of them, experience post-traumatic growth.

Yeah, a bad breakup, a loss of a loved one, an accident, whatever. The good news is, which this is from 9-11 statistics, that 93% of all who get to PTSD, so that's the highest level of stress, recover in three months. 96.7% recover in six months. And all of them, or most of them, 98% of them, experience post-traumatic growth.

So as you put yourself together within the three to six months, you're okay. You're even better than where you were before. So it's not trauma that stresses you. That is the reason for the epidemic of stress in the world today. What stresses you, what breaks you, interestingly, of those external stressors and internal stressors applied in different ways, it doesn't matter.

So as you put yourself together within the three to six months, you're okay. You're even better than where you were before. So it's not trauma that stresses you. That is the reason for the epidemic of stress in the world today. What stresses you, what breaks you, interestingly, of those external stressors and internal stressors applied in different ways, it doesn't matter.

We went into something that we call the three reasons we break, okay? So one of them is trauma, we agree. It's too intense, too quick. But then the other two are very eye-opening. One of them is burnout. which I think most of our listeners will be familiar with.

We went into something that we call the three reasons we break, okay? So one of them is trauma, we agree. It's too intense, too quick. But then the other two are very eye-opening. One of them is burnout. which I think most of our listeners will be familiar with.

And burnout is everything sub-trauma, so you can deal with every day, external or internal, aggregating on top of your head until the sum of all of those forces is too much to bear. So basically, it's the sigma of all of the stressors applied to you, multiplied by their intensity, multiplied by duration of application, by frequency of application.

And burnout is everything sub-trauma, so you can deal with every day, external or internal, aggregating on top of your head until the sum of all of those forces is too much to bear. So basically, it's the sigma of all of the stressors applied to you, multiplied by their intensity, multiplied by duration of application, by frequency of application.

which is actually really interesting to understand. So your commute acts as one of those little stressors. If you do it three times a day, it's more stressful than if you do it once a day. If you do it for an hour and a half, it's more stressful than if you do it for 15 minutes and so on. But here's the interesting thing.

which is actually really interesting to understand. So your commute acts as one of those little stressors. If you do it three times a day, it's more stressful than if you do it once a day. If you do it for an hour and a half, it's more stressful than if you do it for 15 minutes and so on. But here's the interesting thing.

When it comes to burnout, most of those events don't count as worthy of your attention to remove them. Because yeah, you know what? That alarm that wakes me up in the morning that, Sounds like a siren. It's not a big deal. I need to wake up. But then you add that alarm to that comment on your Instagram post that you see first thing in the morning to that comment from Donald Trump that shocks you.

When it comes to burnout, most of those events don't count as worthy of your attention to remove them. Because yeah, you know what? That alarm that wakes me up in the morning that, Sounds like a siren. It's not a big deal. I need to wake up. But then you add that alarm to that comment on your Instagram post that you see first thing in the morning to that comment from Donald Trump that shocks you.

You keep adding them. And probably before you even leave your bedroom, you've had 15 jolts of stress. And then you get into your commute and now you're stressed already. And, you know, and it just keeps adding up. One of your colleagues walks in and goes like, do you still have that report? And you blink. You burst. Load in their face.

You keep adding them. And probably before you even leave your bedroom, you've had 15 jolts of stress. And then you get into your commute and now you're stressed already. And, you know, and it just keeps adding up. One of your colleagues walks in and goes like, do you still have that report? And you blink. You burst. Load in their face.

And you basically, for those who experienced burnout, it's actually quite interesting because the minute it bursts, you can't get out of bed. for a long time. And so the prevention of burnout is not a question of preventing your colleague from saying, where is the report? That's not the issue at all. One of the strategies is a strategy of limiting stressors.

And you basically, for those who experienced burnout, it's actually quite interesting because the minute it bursts, you can't get out of bed. for a long time. And so the prevention of burnout is not a question of preventing your colleague from saying, where is the report? That's not the issue at all. One of the strategies is a strategy of limiting stressors.

And basically one of the exercises I tell people in Unstressable is you need to sit down every single Saturday and write down everything that stressed you the week before. And then literally look at them and scratch out the ones that you're not going to allow in your life again. And the way you deal with it is very straightforward.

And basically one of the exercises I tell people in Unstressable is you need to sit down every single Saturday and write down everything that stressed you the week before. And then literally look at them and scratch out the ones that you're not going to allow in your life again. And the way you deal with it is very straightforward.