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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 per...sonal 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