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How to Be Awesome at Your Job · 2025-06-09 · 44 min · 8,243 words

1065: Harvard’s Stress Expert Shares Top Resilience Tools with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

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The reason it's so difficult to do everything all at once when you're talking about making changes, even positive change, is because change is a stress. on your brain. And so you could really only manage two small changes at a time if you want those changes to stick. Anything more in your system gets overloaded. That's Dr.

Aditi Nurakar. She's a Harvard physician with an expertise in stress, burnout, mental health, and resilience. She's also the author of The Five Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience. So you'll learn one, the major myth that leads to burnout, two, the rule of two for building better habits, and three, how to feel less stressed in one minute. And if you'd like a summary write-up of the actionable takeaways from this conversation, I recommend you check out our free golden nugget.

email newsletter found at awesomeatyourjob.com. I'm Pete McKaidis. This is how to be awesome at your job. And now here's Aditi. Aditi, welcome.

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