Should I spell it for you? S-T-R-E-S-S
Scientists are trying to figure out why we Americans are so much more unhealthy than the British. Our rates of diabetes, cancer and other diseases is considerably more than for those on the other side of the pond. Even the richest among us only fare as well healthwise as the poorest of Brits.
My hypothesis? Stress. We're all super-stressed out, trying to do more with less and in fewer hours. The attitude towards work in Europe -- and I imagine in Britain as well, though I've never been there -- is quite different than ours. It seems that over there more people work to live. Here more and more of us live to work.
Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work I go...
My hypothesis? Stress. We're all super-stressed out, trying to do more with less and in fewer hours. The attitude towards work in Europe -- and I imagine in Britain as well, though I've never been there -- is quite different than ours. It seems that over there more people work to live. Here more and more of us live to work.
Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work I go...
posted by Ana Veciana-Suarez at 10:22 AM
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We don't know real stress. We over-book ourselves and then complain that we have no leasure time. We need to be able to let things go.
Life would be a lot simpler if we learned to enjoy the moment and be satisfied with doing well - not overachieving in EVERYTHING that we attempt.
Focus people, focus. Neither Napoleon nor the Romans were able to concur the world before they became overstretched.
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