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Name: The Stress Code
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Author: Richard Sutton

Richard Sutton

From Surviving to Thriving: A Scientific Model

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What’s in it for me? Regulate your stress to improve your health and achieve your greatest potential.

Today, our lifestyles are fueled by stress. We rush from one place to the next, skimp on sleep, and work late to meet deadlines. In fact, we’re more stressed now than ever before – and it’s making us sick, too.

In the short term, heightened levels of stress cause anxiety, weight gain, and decreased cognitive performance. In the long term, stress can lead to heart attacks, strokes, autoimmune diseases – and has even been linked to premature mortality.

However, small doses of stress can work in our favor, too. The biological responses we have to stressful moments – where our hearts thump in our chest and adrenaline courses through our veins – are what keep us on our toes during a job interview, or what help us find solutions in chaotic circumstances.

So, instead of completely avoiding stress – which, let’s face it, is pretty impossible – we should learn to use it to our advantage. In these blinks, we’ll take a look at the role stress plays in our lives, and how we can harness it to grow personally and professionally.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

what factors drive stress in the modern world;
why athletes are a model for stress management; and
how small doses of stress can actually help you achieve your goals.

Our fast-paced world and hunger for success are increasing our stress levels.

We’ve all heard the warnings. Our busy lives are sending us into a spiral of stress. Health experts around the world are telling us to slow down, take time off, and implement more work-life balance. Many of us have taken up yoga and meditation to calm our nerves, or are simply popping pills to help us get some sleep.

All of this raises the question, why are we so stressed?

Here’s the key message: Our fast-paced world and hunger for success are increasing our stress levels.

According to author Richard Sutton, our physical and mental well-being depends on our ability to establish balance in our lives. If we’re balanced, we’re able to move easily between states of arousal and regeneration – or, activity and rest.

The problem is, modern society makes it impossible for us to maintain our balance for several reasons.

For one thing, being constantly connected via technology makes it harder for us to defend our free time. We’re available 24 hours a day to respond to work calls or emails, or reply to friends or family that need our support. As a result, our schedules are brimming with things to do and people to attend to – while time for ourselves is often left off the list.

Another reason is this: admiration of success and an intolerance of failure is fast becoming the norm in our society.

Whether we realize it or not, all of us are pushing ourselves to be bigger and better than ever before. At the same time, our desire to compete, and ultimately succeed, is steadily increasing. Now, longer working hours, extended work weeks, and less annual leave are commonplace in working environments. Is it any wonder that our stress levels are skyrocketing?

The bad news is that it’s only getting worse. According to a study completed by researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine and the University of California, Los Angeles, the average person in developed society experiences between four and five episodes of stress every week.

For many of us, life often feels like walking a tightrope: we try to move forward steadily, but personal and professional pressures always threaten to push us off balance. That’s why learning to manage stress – and even to harness it for our benefit – is crucial. We’ll take a look at this in the following blinks.

Feeling out of control is the reason why you’re stressed at work.

Would it surprise you to know that work is the primary source of stress in our lives? Probably not. We’re all guilty of working our fingers to the bone and leaving very little space for “me time.” But few of us take time to reflect on just why our jobs are so stressful.

The key message in this blink is: Feeling out of control is the reason why you’re stressed at work.

Stress happens in a two-wave process and has good and bad effects on your body.

Our ancestors lived in huts in the wild and foraged for their food. The stress they experienced on a daily basis was triggered by real physical threats – like a neighboring community attempting to steal their supplies, or a wild animal searching for its supper.

In moments of extreme danger, our bodies learned to issue a stress response – a biological mechanism that could rally the major systems of the body together to protect us from harm.

Chronic stress is having a profound impact on our long-term health.

Picture this. You’ve already worked 50 hours this week, and it’s now Friday morning. You hear your alarm go off, and you groan as you roll over to get out of bed. You’re exhausted – that much is obvious. You haven’t been sleeping much lately, and as a result, your body is aching all over. You don’t really have much desire to eat either: your digestive system is all out of whack, and your head is pounding.

These are examples of how stress can affect us in the short term. But, what happens to us when we experience stress for longer periods of time?

Small doses of stress can spur us on to achieve our goals.

In the mid-2000s, the author was advising a top tennis player on his health and performance during the grass court season. After the season ended, the author flew back home to South Africa. While he was gone, the player injured his shoulder.

Originally, Sutton didn’t panic. He told the athlete to seek help from local therapists until he could be back in the United States to examine him. But, when Sutton returned, even he couldn’t identify the problem with the player’s shoulder, or improve his symptoms.

Like an athlete, you can learn to manage stress with a holistic approach.

For many of us, the life of a professional athlete looks pretty glamorous: they have large salaries, adoring fans, celebrity lifestyles, and a job they love. However, behind the scenes, professional athletes suffer hardships, too. In addition to their exhausting training schedules, they have to deal with unfair team politics, high public expectations, and controlling coaches. They also have to cope with endless travel and separation from their families.

But, athletes seem to manage to avoid chronic stress and maintain an exceptional level of physical and mental health. So, what’s their secret?

Activating the vagus nerve can help you shut down your stress response.

Sometimes, being stressed is just inconvenient. You can’t think or concentrate, and your mind feels like a tangled web of thoughts and worries.

But, what if there was some way of switching stress off? Fortunately, science has discovered the “off-button” – a way to shut down your stress response when things get to be too much.

Food, exercise, and being outdoors can help you maintain healthy levels of stress.

When the author finished high school, he decided to take a five-month holiday to the United States before starting his military service.

Originally, he had set his sights on immersing himself in the local culture and nightlife, and making new friends. But, what happened instead? He lay around all day watching TV, and consuming his body weight in sugar and over-cheesed pizza.

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The Stress Code (2018) explores the role that stress plays in our everyday lives. It examines why stress is deadly to our health, and what effects it has on the global economy. Sutton offers science-backed strategies for stress management to help you improve your mental and physical health and to achieve your potential on a personal and professional level.

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Stress has become highly prevalent in a world geared towards over-arousal.

—Richard Sutton

Wer The Stress Code lesen sollte

Stressed-out people needing to press pause on their busy lives
Professionals seeking a better work-life balance
People recovering from chronic stress

Über den Autor

Richard Sutton is a health and performance consultant, who has advised top athletes, Olympic teams, and international sports federations on pain management and athletic development. He also consults to leading corporations on developing stress resilience, boosting employee engagement, and enhancing productivity.

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