The Neuroscience of Stress Versus Success

The popularity of last week's post on 'how to stress less' is an indication of the level of interest around stress in the workplace. How many HR Professionals out there are aware of the neuroscience of stress versus success? Stress isn’t just a major contributor to illness and disease, stress hormones actually erode higher-brain networks. The result? Essentially the effects of chronic stress will inhibit you from succeeding fully at life. Prolonged periods of high levels of stress mean that your stress response system is on high alert, releasing toxic hormones into your system. These hormones effect your ability to perform, produce and ultimately, to enjoy your life.

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