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#358 - Dr Samantha Boardman - Positive Psychology's Lessons For Coping With Stress

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Dr Samantha Boardman is a psychiatrist and an author.

Divorces, bankruptcies and moving house are major stresses. But what about the micro-stressors we deal with every day, how much do they contribute to diminishing our wellbeing and what can we do to stop that from happening?

Expect to learn which activities studies say are most effective for making you resilient to stress, how to break a downward spiral in your growth, why discomfort is a feature not a bug, how creating a persona can give you confidence and much more...

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0:00.0

Yes, team, welcome back to the show.

0:02.5

My guest today is Dr Samantha Bordman, she's a psychiatrist and an author.

0:07.5

Devourses, bankruptcies and moving house and major stresses, but what about the micro

0:12.0

stresses we deal with every day?

0:14.2

How much do they contribute to diminishing our wellbeing and what can we do to stop that

0:18.1

from happening?

0:19.1

Today, expect to learn which activities studies say are most effective for making a resilient

0:24.5

to stress?

0:25.6

How to break a downward spiral in your growth, why discomfort is a feature, not a bug,

0:31.2

how creating a persona can give you more confidence and much more.

0:36.4

The bottom line is that most of the stresses that we actually encounter are the small ones.

0:41.0

They're the getting stuck in traffic, the dropping coffee on ourselves and those are

0:44.6

the ones that we actually have control over.

0:47.1

The huge catastrophes, if we were able to get out of their way, we probably would,

0:51.8

but we don't, because we can't.

0:54.2

So we need to make ourselves as resilient as possible by controlling the stresses that

0:58.2

we can.

0:59.4

Before I get to other news, thank you to everyone who's reached out and said that they're

1:03.3

really enjoying the modern wisdom reading list.

1:05.4

It did take me ages, so hearing that it's adding tons of value to people's lives is great.

1:10.4

And if you haven't got your copy, then what are you doing with your life and your face?

1:15.2

Get your face, take it to chriswellx.com slashbox.

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