Mo Gawdat: 80% Of Illness Is Linked To One Thing! An Alarming Warning For The Burnout Generation! If You Feel Like This, Quit Your Job Today!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 175 minutes

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Life is getting faster and more hectic than ever before, but is there way to become unstressable? Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer for Google X, the founder of ‘One Billion Happy’ foundation, and co-founder of ‘Unstressable’. He is the bestselling author of books such as, ‘Solve for Happy’, ‘Scary Smart’, and ‘That Little Voice in Your Head’. In this conversation Mo and Steven discuss topics such as, why this is the most stressful time for any generation, how most people won’t recognise the world in 5 years time, and how stress is the new pandemic. 00:00 Intro 02:01 Mo How Are You Doing? 07:08 Mo's New Book & The State Of The World 12:31 The Speed Of The World 17:14 Stress Is The New Addiction 26:41 Will I Lose Productivity Without Stress? 31:06 What is TONN? The Origin Of Stress 36:07 Upsetting People With Change & Choosing To Put Ourselves First 43:31 What Is Loss Aversion? 50:43 The Noise Of Stress 01:01:38 How Do We Spot Our Own Stress? 01:04:49 Are We Really Too Busy? 01:08:23 What Is Steve's BS? 01:12:18 Setting Limits & Prioritising The Important Stuff 01:18:20 How Our Childhood Impact In Our Bias To Workaholism 01:22:22 Loss And How Long We Have Left 01:29:02 Passport Control Detention 01:29:49 How Do We Undo Stress 01:44:02 Work / Life Balance 01:44:52 The Impact Of AI 02:02:04 Being Successful And Balanced 02:16:20 Love & Relationship Advice 02:26:17 Why Some People Don't Find A Partner 02:34:22 Becoming Unstressable 02:40:15 Mo's Family Heartache 02:44:53 What Would You Tell The First People You Loved You can purchase Mo’s newest book, ‘Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living’, available on 9th May 2024, here: https://amzn.to/3w6xG8h Follow Mo: Instagram - https://bit.ly/3w5VGIC Twitter - https://bit.ly/3JwggoE YouTube - https://bit.ly/3QlCUnt Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: Linkedin Ads: https://www.linkedin.com/doac24 Shopify: http://shopify.com/bartlett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are only three ways where stress will break you, but the majority of how stress kills us is because of them.
0:07.0	But this is completely within your control.
0:10.0	Mo Galat is back.
0:12.0	And this time he's on a mission to help millions of people manage their stress.
0:16.0	No matter what, their circumstances.
0:18.0	Stress is very good for you until it kills you.
0:21.0	And what most people don't understand is that it's an addiction
0:23.6	stress is a badge of honor it means that I'm wanted I'm needed and the reality is that
0:28.4	80% of the stuff you do at work is just to prove you're alive but we tell ourselves we're too busy that's a lie.
0:34.0	But the truth is that we are getting to the point where this turning into burnout, anxiety, panic attacks,
0:40.0	we're all suffering. Now I think the most interesting part of stresses to understand
0:44.3	that what breaks us is the long application of obsessions and nuisances.
0:49.1	Nuisances are stressors that are triggered every day and there are so many of them. The first
0:55.0	10 minutes of your day you get 10-15 stressors and then obsessions create a lot of
1:00.0	stress as a result of the lies that you told yourself. This is quite serious.
1:04.0	What do we do about it though?
1:05.0	So you get stressed in four modalities.
1:08.0	Mentally, emotionally, physically, or spiritually.
1:11.0	And each of those is a different language. So your mental stress speaks to you in a
1:16.7	language that is different than your emotional stress. But if you learn that language,
1:21.1	then you can easily deal with that stress when it happens.
1:25.0	And it's simple techniques, so we should cover as many of them as we can.
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