Every human and workplace need to learn how to weaponize stress, because it can make everything in life so much better. Even if they’re not stressed. And it has to start with a little hacking.
The world has never been this stressed and its effects ripple out to touch every corner of life and work. And yet it can be so unnecessary.
Hacking Stress shows what can happen when you approach stress management from a risk management mindset, a hacker mindset, treating it like a collection of risks that needs to be explored, understood, and managed. And maybe even exploited.
Not only can even the most chronic stress be brought under control, the techniques used to tame stress can also make everything else in life better. Even if you’re really not stressed at all.
81% of employees feel it would be helpful to receive training on stress and burnout (National Alliance on Mental Illness, March 2026)
Triaging a Global Health Crisis
Stress has never been at higher level and its impact is felt everywhere. Especially in the workplace.
Yet according to the American Psychological Association’s 2026 Work in America survey, employees who have the most psychological capital perform best under the same stress.
Hacking Stress helps to build that capital, and using the hacker mindset to tame stress, restore agency, and build resilience.
And it’s all modelled on more than 40 years of managing some of the world’s most complicated risks.
Don't think you're stressed? Pretend you are.
It could change your life.
It turns out that the widely accepted techniques for managing stress can also make so many other parts of your life better. Improve your health, happiness, relationships, even life fulfilment and success.
Hacking Stress
The Thinking Disease
12 Big Ideas
The DAM System
A Hidden Superpower
The New Oil
Not another stress hack
Breathing is a stress hack. Mindfulness is a stress hack. Taking a walk in nature is a stress hack.
Hacking Stress is bigger, better, and bolder. It’s adopting a hacker mindset to break into your brain, break down what’s stressing you, view it all from a risk management perspective, and hack your way to a better way to thinking.
And based on the experience of an award-winning cybersecurity expert who used his 40 years of hacking experience to hack, break, and mend his 20 years of chronic stress.
NAMI – the National Alliance on Mental Illness
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