How To Find Peace In The Eye Of The Stress Storm Around You
Advice from a stoic emperor, a general, and an author relearning how to walk.
As a human being it’s inevitable we’ll be dealing with stress in some form. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors dealt with the stress of finding food, shelter, and dealing with predators. Nowadays, food is plentiful. Fortunately, saber-tooth tigers aren’t, but the predator of stress still stalks us and threatens to do us in.
Dr. Lauren Florko in Psychology Today mentions a study from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health confirming this. Apparently 26% to 40% of the North American workforce is “extremely stressed or burned out”. Gloomy news, huh?
So, despite having a simpler life than our predecessors, we’re still stressed. It leads you to the question: how did our ancestors do it and can we do the same thing. The answer to that question is a resounding yes. We also have some all-star stress management teachers who can show us the way.
- Marcus Aurelius dealt with nothing but stress and kept his empire together while maintaining his stoic nature.
- Dwight Eisenhower led the entire Allied war effort in WWII without being one of those burnout statistics.
- Author Robert Greene lost…
