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Introduction: Invisible and Relentless 1
1. A Crisis of Well-Being 7
The fourteen types of microstress and how they're wrecking your fife
2. Why You Can't Keep Up Anymore: Microstresses That Drain Capacity 19
The five microstresses that drain your personal capacity to manage work and life, and practices for pushing back
3. Why Others Drain Your Energy: Microstresses That Deplete Your Emotional Reserves 49
The five microstresses that drain your emotional reserves through interactions both with people you care about and with people you dislike, and strategies to deal with these stresses
4. Why You Don't Feel Like You: Microstresses That Challenge Your Identity 79
The four microstresses that diminish your self-identity by making you less of the person you want to be, and what you can do to fix that
5. What the Ten Percenters Get So Right 109
What top performers do differently to combat microstress and live happier professional and personal lives
6. Where to Find Resilience 133
The seven ways you can expand your ability to resist microstress and its negative consequences through your network of relationships
7. How to Stay Healthy 155
The four steps to regaining and then maintaining physical well-being in the face of unrelenting microstress
8. How to Find Your Purpose 179
The five ways to generate meaning in your everyday life by making more authentic connections with others and making microstress more tolerable
Conclusion: Think Small 207
Notes 211
Index 215
Acknowledgments 223
About the Authors 227

How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it.

There's a force we encounter every day that we aren't aware of―and it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress.

This hidden epidemic of small moments of stress has insidiously infiltrated both our work and our personal lives with invisible but devastating effects. Microstress doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, it embeds itself in our minds and accumulates daily, one microstress on top of the other. The long-term impact can be debilitating. Unregistered microstress weighs us down, damages our physical and emotional health, and contributes to a decline in our well-being. What's more, microstress is baked into our lives. The source is seldom a classic antagonist, such as a demanding client or a jerk boss. Instead, it comes from the people with whom we are closest: our friends, family, and colleagues.

The good news is that once you understand microstress, you can fight back. Drawing on fresh research, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon explain the science behind the phenomenon. They also share the secrets of a small set of people who've endured their share of microstress but have still managed to cultivate relationships that enable them to thrive both at work and in life. Compelling interviews with these high achievers bring to life best practices that show you how to build resilience against microstress and ultimately how to find purpose―purpose that helps you break free from this quietly invasive force that's stealing your life.