Episode 05: Franklin Roosevelt and stress
Who knew that stress could set the absolute limit on your leadership and earning potential? Well, Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew. And so do the researchers we’re discussing today.
Show Notes
Every image we have of the brave leader is of a leader under fire. We love movies like Patton and Independence Day and 12 Angry Men. We gravitate toward portrayals of hard-as-nails generals who lead from the front, and businessmen who refuse to blink in the face of financial ruin.
But what if I told you that your cortisol level, also known as stress level, determines your upward limit as a leader? What if I told you that training new leaders under fire actually makes them risk-averse? And what if I told you that, as a leader, you’re less able to empathize with your subordinates, according to science?
Join us in this episode as we explore the fundamental connection between stress management, leadership, and the most chill president who ever opened a day-spa...when he wasn’t winning wars or dodging torpedoes; Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
History Links:
https://www.soundingsonline.com/features/fdr-and-his-houseboat-the-log-of-the-larooco-1924-1926
https://www.guideposts.org/inspiration/miracles/gods-grace/franklin-d-roosevelts-healing-waters
https://www.fdrlibrary.org/fdr-biography
https://www.history.com/topics/first-ladies/eleanor-roosevelt
https://fdr.blogs.archives.gov/2016/10/04/marguerite-missy-lehand-fdrs-right-hand-woman/
https://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/life-before-the-presidency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#Early_political_career_(1910%E2%80%931920)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Howe#Assistant_to_Roosevelt
Science Links