Optimizing Your Stress | Modupe Akinola

Published: Aug. 25, 2021, 7 a.m.

b'Stress \\u2013 which many of us despise and try to avoid \\u2013 does not actually have to be a bad thing. Rather, it\\u2019s our relationship to stress, our mindset about stress, that determines whether we are helped or harmed by it. Today\\u2019s guest has the science to back this up and the practical tools to help you transfer her insights from the lab to your life.\\nModupe Akinola is an Associate Professor of Management at the Columbia Business School and host of the TED Business podcast. She is also one of the featured experts in our Stress Better course in the Ten Percent Happier app.\\nIn this conversation, Modupe talks about what she\\u2019s learned during these extraordinarily stressful last couple of years, what she calls the \\u201cstress mindset\\u201d (and how to cultivate it), and the vast resources available to us for handling stress (and how to tap them). We also dive into another of Modupe\\u2019s areas of expertise: how to have productive conversations around the often stressful\\u2013but critical\\u2013issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.\\nGet ready for the upcoming Ted Lasso Challenge by downloading the Ten Percent Happier app today: https://10percenthappier.app.link/install\\nFull Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/modupe-akinola-373\\n\\nSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.'