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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

1066: How to Thrive When Your Resilience Runs Out with Dr. Tasha Eurich

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Tasha Eurich shares why pushing through sometimes isn’t enough–and how to bounce back stronger than ever.


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The hidden costs of “grit gaslighting” 

2) How to know when you’ve hit your “resilience ceiling” 

3) The three needs that unlocks the best version of yourself


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1066 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT TASHA — 

Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author (Shatterproof, Insight, Bankable Leadership). 

She helps people thrive in a changing world by becoming the best of who they are and what they do. With a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Tasha is the principal of The Eurich Group, a boutique consultancy that helps successful executives succeed when the stakes are high. 

As an author and sought-after speaker in the self-improvement space, Tasha is a candid yet compassionate voice. Pairing her scientific grounding with 20+ years of experience on the corporate front lines, she reveals the often-surprising secrets to success and fulfillment in the 21st century. 

• Book: Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos (And Why Resilience Alone Isn’t Enough) 

• Quiz: The Resilience Ceiling Quiz 

• Website: TashaEurich.com


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant 

• Book: Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness by Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson 

• Book: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin 

• Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

• StudyNeed Crafting

• Website: World Uncertainty Index 

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


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Transcript

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0:00.0

When the winds of change rage, some people build shelters and others build windmills.

0:17.2

So that's the contrast between resilience and shatterproof is don't just grit your teeth and push through to gain back a status quo that probably wasn't that good anyway.

0:26.6

Use this as fodder for self-examination and self-improvement.

0:29.9

When you're shatterproof, you grow forward.

0:41.9

That's Dr. Tasha Uruk. She helps people thrive in a world besieged by uncertainty, by equipping them to become the best of who they are and what they do.

0:48.5

With a PhD in industrial organizational psychology, Tasha is the principle of the Uric Group,

0:55.1

a boutique consultancy that helps successful executives succeed when the stakes are high.

0:59.4

Today, she's sharing some insight from her latest book, Shatterproof, still learned, one,

1:03.6

the hidden costs of grit gaslighting, two, how to know when you've hit your resilience ceiling,

1:09.7

and three, the three needs that unlock the best version of yourself.

1:14.2

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

1:18.4

I recommend you head on over to Awesome At Your Job.com and sign up for the completely free

1:23.5

email newsletter that we call the Gold Nuggets.

1:26.8

The Gold Nuggets at awesome at your job.com.

1:29.1

Come on down.

1:30.3

I'm Pete McItis.

1:31.3

This is how to be awesome at your job.

1:32.8

And now here's Tasha.

1:39.1

Tasha, welcome back.

1:40.5

It's so great to be back, Pete.

1:42.0

Thanks for having me.

1:43.4

Oh, well, it is great to be chatting with you.

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