Singaporean Entrepreneurs

There’s a book called Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Third Edition by Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky where he argues the case that wild animals are not susceptible to stress-related orders unlike their human counterparts despite their lives being under threat everyday.

Stress in fact is life-saving, especially when our lives are actually under immediate threat. Energy is mobilized to the tissues that need them the most, our heart rate and blood pressure increase, and digestion, growth, immunity and reproductive systems are inhibited for later processing. After all, they are not important if you’re dead. Moreover, stress actually blunts pain, sharpens cognition and improves certain aspects of memory.

But chronic stress as we humans experience it – simply depletes us instead of helping us. The hormone glucocorticoids are released into our system in high quantities over long periods and is actually more damaging than whatever is actually causing the stress.

Funny thing is, even though most of us intuitively know this, we do very little to change our condition, perhaps because we are in a hormone-induced state of pain-freeness. How much does “balance” and “wellness” factor into your busy life as an entrepreneur?