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dence and put more pressure on yourself in subsequent situations.

As depicted in Figure 1.1, your thoughts, your physiology and your

responses to the problem form a vicious cycle that I call Survival Un-

der Stress.

The stressors that set Survival Under Stress in motion are infi-

nite: When priorities change. When someone gets competitive with

you. When your income is lower than expected. When you don’t get

feedback after your presentation and wonder if “no news is good

news.” It certainly is going on once your email inbox climbs up to an

impossible number. As Ned Hallowell describes it in his seminal ar-

ticle, “Overloaded Circuits”: “The sufferer doesn’t experience a single

crisis but rather a... never-ending drip of situations perceived as

minor crises. Feeling trapped and wanting to live up to your own and

others’ expectations of you, you ‘suck it up’ and don’t complain as the

workload increases or the results don’t appear. Your attitude is one of

Figure 1.1

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