471: The Microstress Effect with Karen Dillon
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
One of my favorite authors is Clay Christensen, who has written books like The Innovator’s Dilemma, Competing Against Luck, and How Will You Measure Your Life?. One thing several of his books have in common is a coauthor by the name of Karen Dillon. She’s now cowritten another new book, this time with Rob Cross, […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 471. |
| 0:13.1 | The data is really clear. |
| 0:14.9 | We spend more and more time alone, the older we get. |
| 0:17.7 | So everything is sort of pushing against us being able to be connected to other |
| 0:21.9 | people as we age. But even millennials are lonely. It's not even just an aging thing. |
| 0:27.8 | There's a force we encounter every day that we aren't aware of, and it threatens to derail |
| 0:33.1 | otherwise promising careers and lives. What is it? It's called micro-stress. Hi, I'm Jeff |
| 0:39.9 | Brown, and this is the Read to Lead podcast. The podcast is dedicated to your personal and professional |
| 0:45.7 | growth, where I believe that if you want to achieve true success in your business and in your life, |
| 0:51.2 | that intentional and consistent reading is a must. |
| 0:54.7 | Each week we're joined by another successful and inspiring author to talk about his or her latest |
| 0:59.0 | book and their insights on topics like professional development, leadership, mindset, habits, |
| 1:05.9 | productivity, business, marketing, and much more. |
| 1:08.4 | Today, we're being joined by author Karen Dillon. |
| 1:12.1 | She has co-written a book, along with Rob Cross, called The Microstress Effect, |
| 1:17.5 | How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems and What to Do About It. |
| 1:22.4 | I'll be asking Karen to share about how your inability to say no could be impacting your |
| 1:27.3 | stress levels, |
| 1:28.1 | how to build resilience against the micro-stress in your life, the impact on your brain of |
| 1:33.7 | working late and early in the morning, and much, much more. |
| 1:37.9 | If you haven't already joined us over in the Reed to Lead community, I would like to extend |
| 1:43.3 | an invitation to you to do just that. |
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