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9 Ways We Refuse to Let the Crisis End A zebra outruns a lion. Ninety seconds later it's back to eating grass. No debrief. No group chat with the other zebras about how that felt. The threat ends, the stress ends. Now picture the modern professional. The meeting ends at 3pm. The stress does not end at 3pm. It follows them into the shower, into dinner, into bed. Same species, wildly different balance sheet. Robert Sapolsky spent decades studying stress in baboons and humans. H

Your amygdala doesn't check LinkedIn before it reacts. It sees a threat, real or imagined, and fires. Heart rate up. Muscles tight. Mind sprinting toward the worst-case outcome. This system kept your ancestors alive on the savanna. Today it fires because your boss left a message that just says "call me." Anxiety and stress are not the same product. Anxiety is a spike. You're fine, then your chest tightens and your thoughts race for no reason you can name. Stress is a slow ble

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