Episode 13: Transitional Stress – Change is Challenging

Steve introduces the idea of Transitional Stress, which can come from major shifts in life, including changing jobs, moving to a new location, or otherwise altering your life in a significant way. The episode focuses a lot on travel and culture shock, as well.

WARNING: This episode’s recording quality is middling.

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Citations

• Transitional Stress
• Leading from Behind
• Rogue Scholar
• Diathesis Stress Model
• Anomie
• Social Mores
• Culture Shock (Worth looking into because Phil’s explanation is approximately accurate, but not quite there)
• The Hero’s Journey
• “Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.” —PAUL FUSSELL, Abroad
• Beginner’s Mind
• The Homecomer – Schuetz (1954)
• Found Time
• Economic/Financial Stress (Psychological)
• Office Space (1999)
• The Burning Man reference is pointing to Episode 11 – Internalized Capitalism
• Neoliberalism
• Learned Helplessness
• The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less – Richard Koch
• “In the average company, the boys in the mailroom, the president, the vice president, and the girls in the steno pool have 3 things in common: They are docile. They are bored. And they are dull. Trapped in the pigeon holes of observation charts, they’ve been made slaves to the rules of private and public hierarchies that run mindlessly on and on—because nobody can change them.” Pulled from “The 80/20 Rule” by Richard Koch
• Delayed/Deferred Life Plan
• Jocko Willink
• Chasing Your Losses
• Emotional Leverage – Tony Robbins (Might be a misquote; can’t find an accurate link. The interpretation of the idea is still sound.)
• Sober Depressed and Alone (Phil’s Post)