Obama Discusses Managing Stress

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in your seventh year in office what have

you learned about pacing yourself and

managing the stress of the job you know

the truth is that um I I'm lucky to buy

inclination and temperament be fairly

steady your Hawaiian Roots yeah exactly

I think that's probably what it is good

weather and uh and just like today

yeah uh so I don't get too high don't

get too low uh I've been very consistent

about exercising in the morning that

that helps um I but I think the the most

important I'm very consistent about

spending time with family and uh you

know when you have dinner with you your

daughters uh particularly teenage

daughters uh uh they'll keep you in your

place and and uh they'll teach you

something about perspective um but I

think the most important thing is to

take the Long View on things um we we

live in such a

247 Twitter fed constant news cycle and

everything's a crisis and everything

you're not on Twitter well I'm not but

but but but every everything's a crisis

everything's uh uh terrible everything

is doomsday everything is uh uh if it

doesn't get solved tomorrow uh you know

your presidency is going off the rails I

mean there there must have been what 15

20 things that uh over the last seven

years folks have said this is it it's

over uh you know we had a the Gul oil

spill worst environmental disaster in

history everybody said oh he's handling

this terribly a year later nobody was

talking about it and in retrospect it

turns out that we handled that as well

as any environmental uh crisis has been

handled uh Ebola remember that uh

obviously it's still a serious problem

and we've got to get down to zero but uh

that was probably one of the most

effective uh International Public Health

respons in history and that was led by

us if we hadn't acted uh it would still

be raging and everybody else would be at

risk U and so those experiences I think

remind you that uh my my job is to keep

my eye on the ball and to stay focused

on what can we get done every single day

to

advance the the vision and the values

that brought me here what what can I do

to make sure that uh middle class

families are feeling more secure that

more young people are able to access

opportunity that we are safe that we are

working with our International Partners

to try to uh create more order at a time

when uh there's a lot of chaos uh how do

we deal with terrorism in a way that's

consistent with our

values as long as I stay focused on

those North

Stars uh then I tend not to get too

rattled I was wondering how many hours

of sleep you're getting a night uh

probably not enough that's what I

figured You' say I I will say that uh

when people leave the administration

um and I see them 6 months later they

got the post Administration glow they

they really look good so I'm hoping uh

the same happens to me there's hope for

you thank you Mr President great to see

you take care thank you appreciate it

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