Rob Dial describes hyper stress as the mental load of juggling all your future tasks at once instead of focusing on what's next. He argues the overwhelm comes from thinking about "all 47 things" simultaneously, and the fix is shifting attention to your immediate next action.
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Now we're going to go into. The third one is hyper stress, which is what most people think of when they think of stress. It's too much stress, always there all the time. Either in your day to day life, things are really stressful, or in your mind, things are really stressful. And it's really this feeling of being pushed beyond what you can handle and leading to feeling really overwhelmed. And sometimes, actually, a lot of the times, if I'm being honest with you, when I talk to someone who says they're stressed and overwhelmed, it's not that in this moment, they have too much going on. It's that they have too much going on in the future. And they're trying to think about all 47 things at one time. And that feels overwhelming and that feels stressful versus just doing what the next thing is.