How to Turn Bad Stress Into Good

Stressful times call for performing this Jedi mind trick on yourself

Manoush Zomorodi
Forge
Published in
4 min readAug 17, 2021

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Photo by Zulmaury Saavedra on Unsplash

I just got back from my first conference in Pandemic Times. In the end, the event was rejuvenating. But the build up to my departure was exhausting.

Once a regular (maybe too regular) traveler for work, I hadn’t been on a plane since February 2020. My family had become…

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Manoush Zomorodi
Forge
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Journalist, mom, Swiss-Persian New Yorker. Host of @NPR’s @TEDRadioHour + @ZigZagPod. Author of Bored+Brilliant. Media Entrepreneur-ish. ManoushZ.com/newsletter