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Elastic Resilience: Why Bending Beats Can Lead To Burn Out · PTT Music Podcast

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  So I, I was actually looking at this plastic ruler on my desk yesterday,
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  just bending it, and I realized we have this whole, um, this whole concept of
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  resilience completely backward.
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  We think of being strong as, like, being a brick wall.
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  Totally rigid, unyielding, completely unbreakable.
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  Wait, are you telling me you were just sitting there playing with office supplies
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  instead of finishing your prep work?
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  Okay, yes, maybe, but, but hear me out!
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  It is a real physics thing.
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  If that ruler were made of glass, it would shatter the second you put real pressure
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  on it.
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  But plastic has this property called, uh, elastic deformation.
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  It absorbs the tension, it literally bends out of shape, and then it snaps back.
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  It, it, it uses the stress to find its shape again.
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  Huh.
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  That is actually a really solid metaphor.
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  Because we, we do that, right?
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  We think being resilient means showing zero weakness, never bending,
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  just absorbing impact after impact until we, well, until we shatter.
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  Exactly!
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  We shatter.
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  And there is actual, real data on this.
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  I was reading a, a psychological study from two thousand and twenty two on cognitive
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  fatigue.
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  They tracked people after major work crises, and the individuals who tried to
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  immediately bounce back, like, to one hundred percent capacity right away without
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  any intentional recovery phase, they had a forty percent higher rate of severe
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  secondary burnout.
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  Forty percent, Jordan.
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  Forty percent?
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  That is wild.
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  But it makes sense.
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  It is like you are, you are running on a sprained ankle and wondering why the whole
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  leg gives out a mile later.
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  Oh, absolutely.
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  I mean, I am, I am the textbook case of this.
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  Remember that creative project last year?
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  The, the video launch where we missed our target by, like, a mile?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  You went into complete overdrive.
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  It was, uh, it was intense to watch, honestly.
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  It was exhausting.
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  I put on this aggressive happy face, doubled my daily workload,
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  and told everyone I was totally fine.
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  I thought that was what a leader was supposed to do.
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  And then, boom.
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  Literally one month later, I hit a wall so hard I could barely look at my laptop for
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  a week.
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  Yeah, you, you completely ran out of fuel.
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  But that, you know, that transition from absorbing damage to actually using the
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  tension, that is what is so cool about the track PTT Music put out.
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  Do you remember "Snap Back?"
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  Oh, from July two thousand and twenty six?
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  Yes!
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  It is, what, like three minutes and thirty six seconds of just pure positive
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  attitude.
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  Right, three minutes and thirty six seconds of this incredible sonic structure.
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  The, the driving rhythmic snaps and that heavy, heavy bassline.
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  It does not try to sound, like, perfectly smooth or gentle.
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  It embraces the tension.
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  It feels like a physical pattern interrupt.
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  When you listen to it, you can actually feel the rhythmic snaps acting like a,
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  a release valve for your brain.
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  It is honestly the ultimate antidote to the toxic grindset culture.
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  You know, that whole sleep when you are dead, work through the pain mentality that
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  people love to post about on social media.
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  Ugh, please do not get me started on the grindset.
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  It is so brittle!
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  It is like people think they are machines.
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  But machines wear out and break if you run them at maximum speed constantly.
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  Exactly.
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  It actually reduces your brain's adaptive capacity.
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  There is this psychologist, Dr.
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  Ann Masten, who focuses on everyday resilience.
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  She talks about how elite level resilience is not about some massive,
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  superhuman effort during a crisis.
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  It is actually built through ordinary, day to day rhythmic habits and clear,
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  proactive boundaries.
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  Everyday resilience.
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  I love that so much.
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  It is about the small things.
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  Which is exactly what we see in the music, too.
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  Like, look at the twenty twenty five PTT Music track, "Can't Break Me Now."
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  That steady vocal line is basically a self talk stabilization tool.
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  Oh, totally.
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  And there is actual cognitive behavioral therapy data behind that.
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  Studies show that using repetitive, rhythmic vocal triggers can actually help lower
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  your amygdala hyper reactivity by up to thirty percent during high stress scenarios.
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  Wait, thirty percent?
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  Just from a rhythmic trigger?
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  Yeah, up to thirty percent.
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  It's know to help calm the threat center of your brain so you can think clearly
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  again instead of just panicking.
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  That is incredible.
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  So, how do we actually use this in real life?
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  Like, when we are in the middle of a massive stress spiral?
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  Well, we can do what I call the ten minute pattern interrupt.
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  It is a super simple, step by step physical routine.
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  When you feel that tension building and you are about to shatter,
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  you do not push through.
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  You physically step away from your workspace.
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  You change your sensory environment, go outside, look at a tree,
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  whatever.
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  And then you just match your breathing to a steady, heavy beat,
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  like the rhythm of "Snap Back."
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  Just let the music help reset your nervous system for ten minutes.
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  I love that.
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  Ten minutes to go from a glass ruler to an elastic one.
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  Alright, well, I am going to go step away from my desk now.
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  Good chatting, Jordan.
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  Again, thanks for spending this time with us on the PTT Music Podcast.
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  We hope today's conversation left you inspired, encouraged,
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  and ready to carry that energy with you wherever life takes you.
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  I'm Jordan Sterling...
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