Workplace stress can be helpful or can be distressful. It is helpful when it urges you move outside your comfort zone, continuing to try skills and techniques you’ve never used before. It is distressful when it makes you question your sense of worth or your competence. The article provides that knowing you are more than whatever project you deliver and skill you have is the best ‘de-stresser’ because it gives you that distance from work and emboldens you with the thought ‘you really have nothing to lose’