Stress is perfectly natural. Everyone experiences the occasional stress. It’s not something we should be very afraid of. However, chronic stress - the stress you stay in for longer periods of time - leads to motivation issues, health problems and sometimes even burn-out. In this talk, psychologist Thijs Launspach explains what we often get wrong about stress: it’s an individual thing, yes, but also a work problem. As people also get ill from their environments, we need a human revolution in the workplace, Launspach explains. It’s high time we treat workers not like productivity machines, but as human beings.

Thijs Launspach (1988) is a Dutch psychologist, (TEDx-)speaker and (best-selling) author. He is a teacher at The School of Life in Amsterdam, and his book Crazy Busy: keeping sane in a stressful world has just been released at Capstone / Wileys. Launspach speaks and writes about how to improve and maintain mental health in a world that’s growing ever more complicated. The more challenging the times that we’re living through – both at our jobs and outside of our work – the stronger we have to be mentally, Launspach says. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx