🎿 How to Do it All!! 📚

🏅 Olympian @eileengu discussing having a full time career, being an Olympic athlete, and being a student at Stanford. She views each pursuit as a stress reliever from her other endeavors.

🪣 In stress literature we often discuss the Bucket Model of stress. In this model you pour water (stress) until it over flows unless you can create a de-stressor or a way to pour water out of your bucket. One way to view Gu's situation is that she is pouting more and more water in all the time with her busy schedule and varied pursuits. Using cognitive restructuring she was able to reframe these "stressors" (skiing, modeling, and school) as ways to release stress from the others.

🔥 This approach will greatly reduce feelings of burnout because rather than viewing sport as an additional stressor, it is actually a way to release the stress from other aspects of her busy life!

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