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Back to EpisodesLeveraging Stress and Living a Superhuman Life with Richard Sutton
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Richard Sutton is “a South African legend with an International following”. He is an adviser on stress management and adaptability to industry leaders, top athletes and Olympic teams. He is widely regarded as an expert in the field of genetics and their role in resilience and human performance. Richard has been a post-graduate lecturer in the areas of performance, health and athlete development for almost two decades at leading universities.He has authored two incredible books on stress and resilience called “The Stress Code” and “Stressproof: The Game Plan”.
Richard was blessed to build a career within his passion with athletes across all disciplines. These elite individuals are all subjected to constant incomprehensible stressors, and yet he found they had the incredible capacity to adapt and cope. Through research and experience he discovered the very strategic ways that these elite athletes coped so well with stress. He found the same themes as he migrated into the corporate space.
Listen up for ways to not only develop a strategy to manage our stress, but also to become more resilient and ultimately augment our potential.
Join us as we explore:
- The strategic activities used by elite athletes to manage extreme levels of stress in order to thrive
- Ancestral principles for stress management
- What this means for South Africans who according to Bloomberg, live in the second most stressful country (2013 Stress Index)
- The drivers of stress
- What is stress?
- How people should think about stress
- The positive aspects of stress
- When does stress become destructive?
- The benefits of reframing stressful circumstances
- Can we reframe PTSD to Post Traumatic Growth
- How do we become anti-fragile?
- Four fundamental parts of a successful stress strategy
- Importance of connectivity - and Oxytocin - for stress
- Loving Kindness meditation practices to trigger oxytocin
- Why is stress so prevalent now
- Does your age impact your stress level?
- Impact of lack of control on your stress level
- The impact of interventions that trigger the vagus nerve aka the body’s fail safe system
- Heart rate variability as a tool to manage stress
- The key to sustained transformation
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Book: Richard Sutton. The Stress Code: From Surviving to Thriving.
Book: Richard Sutton. Stressproof: The Gameplan
Study: Elite athletes live longer than the general population: a meta-analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25128074/
Bloomberg Study: Bloomberg (2013). Most stressed-out countries. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/best-and-worst/#most-stressed-out-countries
Book: Kelly McGonigal PhD. The Upside of Stress - Why Stress is Good For You and How
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