Why Stress Is So Addictive & How To Quickly Reduce Your Anxiety and Become Unstressable | Mo Gawdat & Alice Law

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Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer of Google [X]; host of the popular podcast, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat; author of the international bestselling books Solve for Happy; Scary Smart; That Little Voice in Your Head; and Unstressable. He’s also the founder of One Billion Happy; and Chief AI Officer of Flight Story. After a 30 year career in tech and serving as Chief Business Officer at Google [X], Google's 'moonshot factory' of innovation, Mo has made happiness his primary topic of research, diving deeply into literature and conversing on the topic with some of the wisest people in the world. In recent years, he has focused on the dangerous implications of rapid AI development.

Alice Law is a Stress & Wellness Expert, Speaker and Host of the Podcast Unstressable with Alice Law. She has worked internationally with a multitude of private clients and large organizations, to help them to both manage and prevent stress, so that they can reach their greatest potential. Together with Mo Gawdat she co-founded Unstressable LLP which aims to take a million people a year out of stress through their online wellness membership, speaking engagements and book.

Today on the show we discuss: advice for people who are super stressed, how to prevent stress from getting worse, why so many people are surprisingly addicted to stress, how stress impacts your physical health, hidden signs that you’re overstressed, what you can do first thing in the morning to reduce stress and much more.

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