Ryan Shank asks whether closing a multibillion-dollar deal stresses your body the same way being late to pick up your kid does. He wonders if brainwave data could measure whether stress is actually relative, and suggests that if it is, you might as well go big.
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the bigger decisions actually are probably the same level of stress as a smaller decision. Sort of like in sales, right? Versus thinking smaller scale. So it feels like this probably feels the same. Your body— I'd be interesting to see like an analytic approach to like how— I don't know how you write the brainwaves. Like, is someone that's stressed because they're late picking up their kid is at the same level of stress as someone that's like about to close a multibillion-dollar acquisition and someone's blocking it and they got to do the lawyer? Like, is the body's response the same? And if everything's relative, just fucking go big, right?