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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

1065: Harvard’s Stress Expert Shares Top Resilience Tools with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar discusses the neuroscience behind stress—and offers actionable tips for building your resilience.


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The major myth that leads to burnout 

2) The rule of two for building healthier habits 

3) How to feel less stressed in one minute


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— ABOUT ADITI — 

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar is a Harvard stress expert, internationally recognized speaker, and national television correspondent with an expertise in stress, burnout, resilience and mental health. Her book The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience is a “must read” by Adam Grant and Malcolm Gladwell’s Next Big Idea Club and “best new book” by the New York Post. Named “100 Women to Know in America,” her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, The Today Show and NPR. She is also a frequent keynote speaker with talks at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit and other events.

• Book: The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience 

• Test: Your Stress Score 

• Website: DrAditi.com


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Tool: Holmes and Rahe stress scale 

• Study: “Association of wearable device-measured vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity with mortality” by Emmanuel Stamatakis, et al. 

• Study: “Effects of Exercise on Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” by Jiale Peng, Yuling Yuan, Yuanhui Zhao, and Hong Ren 

• Past episode: 996: Tackling Work Stressors and Transitions with Dr. Tessa West 


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Transcript

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The reason it's so difficult to do everything all at once when you're talking about making changes, even positive change, is because change is a stress on your brain. And so you could really only manage

0:23.8

two small changes at a time if you want those changes to stick. Anything more in your system

0:30.5

gets overloaded. That's Dr. Aditi Nurakar.

0:43.4

She's a Harvard physician with an expertise in stress, burnout, mental health, and resilience.

0:47.8

She's also the author of The Five Resets, Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience.

0:53.4

So you'll learn one, the major myth that leads to burnout.

0:56.0

Two, the rule of two for building better habits.

0:58.8

And three, how to feel less stressed in one minute.

1:01.8

And if you'd like a summary write-up of the actionable takeaways from this conversation,

1:04.7

I recommend you check out our free Golden Nugget email newsletter,

1:08.0

found it awesome at your job.com.

1:09.6

I'm Pete McItis.

1:10.4

This is How to Be awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is how to be awesome at your job.

1:11.7

And now here's Aditi.

1:17.0

Aditi, welcome.

1:18.2

Thanks for having me.

1:19.5

It's such a pleasure to join you.

1:21.0

Well, it's a pleasure to be chatting.

1:22.4

I listened to your entire book and I loved it.

1:25.2

And there's so many fun alleys we can go down. But first, I want to hear your

1:30.8

hot take. You are a stress expert. Doctor looked at it closely for many years. Tell us,

1:38.6

what is something you understand about stress that you think the vast majority of us just have wrong?

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