“If you can’t handle stress, you won’t manage success.”

Is this true from your experience of life?

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Nope. I don’t equate being able to handle to stress to always being successful. But success means different things to everyone. I just know stress shut me down this year and I still managed to come out of everything breathing and thriving in my own way. I didn’t try to handle it at all. I simply let it exist because it was that big of a force and honestly I was too small to conquer it. It was sheer luck that success came anyway.

But at work I do handle it because it benefits the overall success of the machine functioning efficiently and I’m very much aware that I have to be the bigger force against the stress others can’t manage properly.

BrandNewMan · M

Generally accurate for me .. at best the success will be limited vs the potential if stress is not managed and disrupts things

Chiefjustice · 46-50, M

@BrandNewMan I think stress at work vs stress in personal life often can be two different animals. However, generally speaking handling of stress for a leader in an orignazation or at home has a major affect on others. You make or break your teams. If you get stressed out and cannpt handle, are considered incompetent and unable to lead.

A calm and collected person able to see the big picture makes the world of difference whether it is at work or home.

Staying calm and collected is not always possible, i get it, however they energy we project on others is also evident.

BiasForAction · M

I think so

ScreamingFox · 41-45, F

I don't want the stress

Chiefjustice · 46-50, M

@ScreamingFox Unfortunately it is an inherent part of this world, from the day we arrive..until the day we depart.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@Chiefjustice I do like a moderate amount of stress, let's call it adversity or challenge. No stress whatsoever, I find a little boring. I like a little stress that I can manage and overcome.

Chiefjustice · 46-50, M

@JimboSaturn Me too, for some reason I thrive on it at work it is little exciting. Not always, but most of the time, not when you are in planning phase.

val70 · 51-55

Accept that and you're back in the 19th Century

Chiefjustice · 46-50, M

@val70 how so?

NativePortlander1970 · 51-55

Success is built on a thousand failures, a quitter never tries.

Jennifer · 46-50, F

@NativePortlander1970 I fully agree with you, and to combine the two I’d argue: “If you cannot handle the stress of failure (and trying again), then you cannot handle the stress of success”

Chiefjustice · 46-50, M

@Jennifer Very well put!

NativePortlander1970 · 51-55

@Jennifer Exactly

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