Stress is our brain and body preparing us to do something difficult. If you change the way you think about stress you can use it to your advantage. This week, Dr. Erik Korem is here to discuss the five secrets to building adaptive capacity to make stress work for you and live a high-performance life. Grab your notebook because this episode is filled with advice you’re going to want to write down.
This week:
How to adapt to stress and use it to our advantage
How to build adaptive capacity
How we can improve our sleep quality and reduce hunger
How the benefits of community make you happier
How parents can avoid burnout
How Dr. Erik found his purpose
Rapid fire questions, including the unexpected amount of time that works best for naps
Here is my favorite quote from this week’s episode:
"Just because you're in it right now and it really is hard and it really sucks, doesn't mean that there's something excellent that can come out the other side." – Dr. Erik Korem
Dr. Erik Korem is a high-performance thought leader on a mission to help people live a healthy and fulfilled life. He introduced sports science and athlete tracking technologies to collegiate and professional football over a decade ago and has worked with the National Football League, Power-5 NCAA programs, gold-medal Olympians, Nike, and the United States Department of Defense. Erik is an expert in sleep and stress resilience, and he is the Founder and CEO of AIM7 and the host of The BluePrint podcast.
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