Snap CEO says he's gotten better at managing stress - and suggests reframing it as a 'gift' and 'opportunity'

Evan Spiegel reframes stress as a gift, a learning opportunity, and a growth opportunity, and views that mindset as improving stress management. Research, including work by Stanford's Kelly McGonigal, suggests reframing stress as positive can have a significant impact on the ability to manage it. Spiegel uses exercise, sauna sessions, and meditation as regular stress-management practices. Extended experience as CEO has increased Spiegel's capacity to handle recurring stressful events. Spiegel navigated major moments such as a rejected acquisition offer from Meta, a public offering, and a company restructuring into smaller squads.

"How do we approach stress in our minds? Do we call it out as stress and something that's bad, or do we say, 'Actually, this is a gift, this is a learning opportunity, this is a growth opportunity.'"

"This is a gift, this is a learning opportunity, this is a growth opportunity,"

"Once you're just in a rhythm of dealing with stressful events all the time, it becomes very normal, and stress is about a response to something unusual."

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